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Enhancing the quality and consistency of these libraries is crucial for improving the accuracy of metabolite identification and training machine learning models. However, public spectral libraries often suffer from variability in user submissions, unintentional errors, and a lack of standardization. Existing metadata cleaning and normalization tools typically exclude spectra with incorrect or unsupported metadata rather than attempting to correct them, resulting in the loss of valuable spectral data and associated metabolites details. This study introduces STRIKER (SpecTRal lIbrary maKER), a repair tool specifically designed to address adduct metadata deficiencies using a distance-based metric and a deep learning model. STRIKER leverages advanced similarity-based approaches to predict adducts in spectra lacking adduct metadata. It corrects adduct-related errors and standardizes adduct formatting using a deep learning model based on the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) algorithm. 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