KindleComicConverter is a Python app to convert comic files or folders to ePub or Panel View MOBI. It was initally developed for Kindle but since v2.2 it outputs valid ePub 2.0 so despite its name, KCC is actually a comic to EPUB converter that every e-reader owner can happily use. It can also optionally optimize images by applying a number of transformations.
KCC is not Amazon's Kindle Comic Creator nor is in any way endorsed by Amazon.
Amazon's tool is for comic publishers and involves a lot of manual effort, while KCC is for comic readers.
If you want to read some comments over Amazon's KC2 you can take a look at this and that threads on Mobileread.
KC2 in no way is a replacement for KCC so you can be quite confident we'll going to carry on developing our little monster ;)
If you find KCC valuable you can consider donating to the authors:
- Ciro Mattia Gonano
- Paweł Jastrzębski
You can find the latest released binary at the following links:
- Win64: http://kcc.vulturis.eu/Win64/
- Win32: http://kcc.vulturis.eu/Win32/
- OS X: http://kcc.vulturis.eu/OSX/
- Linux: Just download sourcecode and launch:
python kcc.py
KCC can understand and convert, at the moment, the following file types:
- PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
- Folders
- CBZ, ZIP
- CBR, RAR (With
unrarexecutable) - CB7, 7Z (With
7zaexecutable) - PDF (Extracting only contained JPG images)
- KindleGen v2.9+ in a directory reachable by your PATH or in KCC directory (For .mobi generation)
- UnRAR (For CBR/RAR support)
- 7za (For 7z/CB7 support)
- Python 2.7 - Included in MacOS and Linux, follow the official documentation to install on Windows.
- PyQt4 - Please refer to official documentation for installing into your system.
- Pillow 2.2.1+ - For comic optimizations. Please refer to official documentation for installing into your system.
- Use high quality source files. This little detail have a major impact on the final result.
- Read tooltip of High/Ultra quality option. There are many important informations there.
- When converting images smaller than device resolution remember to enable upscaling.
- Panel View (auto zooming every part of page) can be disabled directly on Kindle. There is no KCC option to do that.
- If you're converting color images and the end result is not satisfactory, experiment with gamma correction option (check 1.0 setting first).
- Check our wiki for a list of tested Non-Kindle E-Readers.
- The first image found will be set as the comic's cover.
- All files/directories will be added to EPUB in alphabetical order.
- Output MOBI file should be uploaded via USB. Other methods might corrupt it.
Should be pretty self-explanatory. All options have detailed informations in tooltips. After completed conversion you should find ready file alongside the original input file (same directory).
Usage: comic2ebook.py [options] comic_file|comic_folder
Options:
MAIN:
-p PROFILE, --profile=PROFILE
Device profile (Choose one among K1, K2, K345, KDX, KHD, KF, KFHD, KFHD8, KFHDX, KFHDX8, KFA) [Default=KHD]
-q QUALITY, --quality=QUALITY
Quality of Panel View. 0 - Normal 1 - High 2 - Ultra [Default=0]
-m, --manga-style Manga style (Right-to-left reading and splitting)
-w, --webtoon Webtoon processing mode
OUTPUT SETTINGS:
-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT
Output generated file to specified directory or file
-t TITLE, --title=TITLE
Comic title [Default=filename or directory name]
--cbz-output Outputs a CBZ archive and does not generate EPUB
--batchsplit Split output into multiple files
PROCESSING:
--blackborders Disable autodetection and force black borders
--whiteborders Disable autodetection and force white borders
--forcecolor Don't convert images to grayscale
--forcepng Create PNG files instead JPEG
--gamma=GAMMA Apply gamma correction to linearize the image [Default=Auto]
--nocutpagenumbers Don't try to cut page numbering on images
--noprocessing Don't apply image preprocessing
--nosplitrotate Disable splitting and rotation
--rotate Rotate landscape pages instead of splitting them
--stretch Stretch images to device's resolution
--upscale Resize images smaller than device's resolution
CUSTOM PROFILE:
--customwidth=CUSTOMWIDTH
Replace screen width provided by device profile
--customheight=CUSTOMHEIGHT
Replace screen height provided by device profile
OTHER:
-v, --verbose Verbose output
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
Usage: comic2panel.py [options] comic_folder
Options:
MANDATORY:
-y HEIGHT, --height=HEIGHT
Height of the target device screen
-i, --in-place Overwrite source directory
OTHER:
-d, --debug Create debug file for every splitted image
-h, --help Show this help message and exit
KCC is made by Ciro Mattia Gonano and Paweł Jastrzębski
This script born as a cross-platform alternative to KindleComicParser by Dc5e (published here)
The app relies and includes the following scripts/binaries:
KindleUnpackscript by Charles M. Hannum, P. Durrant, K. Hendricks, S. Siebert, fandrieu, DiapDealer, nickredding. Released with GPLv3 License.rarfile.pyscript © 2005-2011 Marko Kreen markokr@gmail.com. Released with ISC License.image.pyclass from Alex Yatskov's Mangle with subsequent proDOOMman's and Birua's patches.- Icon is by Nikolay Verin (http://ncrow.deviantart.com/) and released under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License.
- Kindle Paperwhite
- Kindle
- Kindle DX/DXG
- Kindle Fire
- Kindle Fire HD
- Kindle Fire HD 8.9"
- Kindle Fire HDX
- Kindle Fire HDX 8.9"
####1.00
- Initial version
####1.10
- Added support for CBZ/CBR files in comic2ebook.py
####1.11
- Added support for CBZ/CBR files in KindleComicConverter
####1.20
- Comic optimizations! Split pages not target-oriented (landscape with portrait target or portrait with landscape target), add palette and other image optimizations from Mangle. WARNING: PIL is required for all image mangling!
####1.30
- Fixed an issue in OPF generation for device resolution
- Reworked options system (call with -h option to get the inline help)
####1.40
- Added some options for controlling image optimization
- Further optimization (ImageOps, page numbering cut, autocontrast)
####1.41
- Fixed a serious bug on resizing when img ratio was bigger than device one
####1.50
- Added subfolder support for multiple chapters.
####2.0
- GUI! AppleScript is gone and Tk is used to provide cross-platform GUI support.
####2.1
- Added basic error reporting
- Added (valid!) ePub 2.0 output
- Rename .zip files to .cbz to avoid overwriting
####2.3
- Fixed win32 ePub generation, folder handling, filenames with spaces and subfolders
####2.4
- Use temporary directory as workdir (fixes converting from external volumes and zipfiles renaming)
- Fixed "add folders" from GUI.
####2.5
- Added --black-borders option to set added borders black when page's ratio is not the device's one (#11).
- Fixes epub containing zipped itself (#10)
####2.6
- Added --rotate option to rotate landscape images instead of splitting them (#16, #24)
- Added --output option to customize ePub output dir/file (#22)
- Add rendition:layout and rendition:orientation ePub meta tags (supported by new kindlegen 2.8)
- Fixed natural sorting for files (#18)
####2.7
- Lots of GUI improvements (#27, #13)
- Added gamma support within --gamma option (defaults to profile-specified gamma) (#26, #27)
- Added --nodithering option to prevent dithering optimizations (#27)
- Epub margins support (#30)
- Fixed no file added if file has no spaces on Windows (#25)
- Gracefully exit if unrar missing (#15)
- Do not call kindlegen if source epub is bigger than 320MB (#17)
- Get filetype from magic number (#14)
- PDF conversion works again
####2.8
- Updated rarfile library
- Panel View support + HQ support (#36) - new option: --nopanelviewhq
- Split profiles for K4NT and K4T
- Rewrite of Landscape Mode support (huge readability improvement for KPW)
- Upscale use now BILINEAR method
- Added generic CSS file
- Optimized archive extraction for zip/rar files (#40)
####2.9
- Added support for generating a plain CBZ (skipping all the EPUB/Mobi generation) (#45)
- Prevent output file overwriting the source one: if a duplicate name is detected, append _kcc to the name
- Rarfile library updated to 2.6
- Added GIF, TIFF and BMP to supported formats (#42)
- Filenames slugifications (#28, #31, #9, #8)
####2.10:
- Multiprocessing support
- Kindle Fire support (color ePub/Mobi)
- Panel View support for horizontal content
- Fixed panel order for horizontal pages when --rotate is enabled
- Disabled cropping and page number cutting for blank pages
- Fixed some slugify issues with specific file naming conventions (#50, #51)
####3.0:
- New QT GUI
- Merge with AWKCC
- Added ultra quality mode
- Added support for custom width/height
- Added option to disable color conversion
####3.1:
- Added profile: Kindle for Android
- Add file/directory dialogs now support multiselect
- Many small fixes and tweaks
####3.2:
- Too big EPUB files are now splitted before conversion to MOBI
- Added experimental parser of manga webtoons
- Improved error handling
####3.2.1:
- Hotfixed crash occurring on OS with Russian locale
####3.3:
- Margins are now automatically omitted in Panel View mode
- Margin color fill is now autodetected
- Created MOBI files are not longer marked as Personal on newer Kindle models
- Layout of panels in Panel View mode is now automatically adjusted to content
- Fixed Kindle 2/DX/DXG profiles - no more blank pages
- All Kindle Fire profiles now support hiqh quality Panel View
- Added support of 7z/CB7 files
- Added Kindle Fire HDX profile
- Support for Virtual Panel View was removed
- Profiles for Kindle Keyboard, Touch and Non-Touch are now merged
- Windows release is now bundled with UnRAR and 7za
- Small GUI tweaks
Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Ciro Mattia Gonano and Paweł Jastrzębski.
KCC is released under ISC LICENSE; see LICENSE.txt for further details.