The EPUB Plugins project contains the OS X Spotlight and Quick Look plugins for EPUBs. By installing these plugins, you can search and preview EPUBs.
macOS 12+
To download plugins, go to Releases page and click download links in “Downloads” section.
To install plugins, unzip downloaded files and copy them to the following path:
EPUB.mdimporter (Spotlight plugin)
~/Library/Spotlight(only for current user) or/Library/Spotlight(for all users)
EPUB.qlgenerator (Quick Look plugin)
~/Library/QuickLook(only for current user) or/Library/QuickLook(for all users)
OS X recognizes these plugins after copying them to appropriate path. However, if the system doesn't recognize the plugins, run commands as follows:
$ mdimport -r /path/to/EPUB.mdimorter
$ qlmanage -r
or, simply reboot.
The EPUB metadata are assigned to OS X metadata as follows:
| EPUB metadata | OS X metadata |
|---|---|
| title | kMDItemTitle |
| creator | kMDItemAuthors |
| subject | kMDItemKeywords |
| description | kMDItemDescription, kMDItemHeadline |
| publisher | kMDItemPublishers, kMDItemOrganizations |
| contributor | kMDItemContributors |
| identifier | kMDItemIdentifier |
| language | kMDItemLanguages |
| coverage | kMDItemCoverage |
| rights | kMDItemCopyright, kMDItemRights |
| date | kMDItemContentCreationDate |
| last modified date | kMDItemContentModificationDate |
| Body text | kMDItemTextContent |
| Number of content documents in EPUB | kMDItemNumberOfPages |
| EPUB specification version | com_genjiapp_Murasaki_mdimporter_EPUB_EPUBVersion |
| Thumbnail | Preview |
|---|---|
| Cover image of EPUB | Loading limit: about 50MB |