situation when opf file content is

<meta name="cover" content="cover.jpg"/>

cps/epub.py

@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ def get_epub_info(tmp_file_path, original_file_name, original_file_extension):
                 coverfile = extractCover(zip, filename, "", tmp_file_path)        
             else:
                 coverfile = extractCover(zip, coversection[0], coverpath, tmp_file_path)
+        else:
+            meta_cover = tree.xpath("/pkg:package/pkg:metadata/pkg:meta[@name='cover']/@content", namespaces=ns)
+            if len(meta_cover) > 0:
+                meta_cover_content = tree.xpath("/pkg:package/pkg:manifest/pkg:item[@id='"+meta_cover[0]+"']/@href",namespaces=ns)
+                if len(meta_cover_content) > 0:
+                    coverfile = extractCover(zip, meta_cover_content[0], coverpath, tmp_file_path)
             else:
                 coverfile = None