General Metadata Information

Kavita uses metadata to parse Series Name, Volumes, Chapters, Special Status, etc…

Kavita reads metadata from within your .cb* archives (cbz, cbr, cb7, cbt) and epubs. If your archives contain a comicinfo.xml at the root, or if your epub contains an embedded .opf file, it will override any parsed information from the filename.

You can find multiple tools to add metadata under External Tools.

Metadata Tag Conversion

Below is an example showing how common tags are used in Kavita. More complete documentation can be found on their respective pages.