[Kavita] Add toggle to disable Metadata reading for PDF parsing - Backwards Compatibility

[Boiledham]

Idea Description

For a while, PDFs parsing relied on the file name only. Now, the latest build will prioritize embedded metadata in PDFs and thus effectively changing how it parses PDFs. I know there are libraries out there where the metadata is invalid or incomplete so for those libraries, this change is breaking for those users. Having a toggle to ignore / disable reading embedded metadata for PDF parsing would provide some backwards compatibility while giving users time to decide if they want to go the route of updating metadata for their PDFs or not.

Idea Category

Feature Enhancement

Duration of Using Kavita

2 years

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[majora2007]

As we had discussed, I think the FR should be aligned to giving the user the ability to disable metadata reading for a library. This would be the backward compatibility and make more sense. Currently PDF reader does the filename parsing then overrides with the internal metadata.

Please update your title/description to align with this so we can get community feedback. You can 100% align it with the PDF parser as well.

[Boiledham]

I made some adjustments to both, hopefully it's clearer this way