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+# ComiServ
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+An educational project to create a comic server in Asp.Net Core and Entity Framework Core. Scans a library folder for comic files, and exposes an API to:
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+- Get/Set metadata for any comic file (author, tags, description, etc.)
+- Search comics using any metadata
+- Track read status for each user
+- Serve entire comic files, or individual pages (with optional resizing and re-encoding)
+- identify duplicate files in the library
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+API is thoroughly documented through Swagger. In progress is a web app that consumes the API and provides a convenient user interface.
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+(If this sounds like something you want to run on your machine, you should check out komga: https://github.com/gotson/komga)