Comments on: Editing PDF metadata on OSx (ie: having the Kindle display the right title/author with pdfs)

By: AN TSCHIDA

AN TSCHIDA — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 13:25:00 +0000

Good post , I was enlightened by the points , Does anyone know if my assistant would be able to get access to a template a form example to complete?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:58:00 +0000

PDF-Meta did the trick. Thx for the help!

By: Mikele

Mikele — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:29:00 +0000

tx, Exif Tool looks really good

By: Ste

Ste — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:58:00 +0000

found some other alternatives for this task:

MetaPDF is a recent (2013) app available on the mac app store, i didn’t give it a try yet:
https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/metapdf/id599417640?l=en&mt=12

Exif Tool is a little overkilled (runs by terminal, no UI) but really powerful:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

personally, i’m still searching my solution :)

By: Gero

Gero — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:31:07 +0000

Two interesting facts:

(a) I’d prefer the pdf-meta Java solution, as it is able to display and actually edit the current meta information. Instead of that, PDFInfo will let you enter new ones and overwrite the old ones, without showing them as a starting point.

BTW – pdf-meta also supports drag & drop: Simply close the original file select box and drag your files to the white box on the left inside the program window.

(b) Both pdf-meta and PDFInfo share the problem that the file path _AND_ file name should contain only “regular” characters. If you are in a non-US environment, like myself in Germany, and you have something with umlaut in it, you’re stuck.

Let’s use a German word as an example, “Bürste” = “brush”.

– ~/Documents/Bürste/Bürste.pdf won’t work.
– ~/Documents/Buerste/Bürste.pdf won’t work.
– ~/Documents/Bürste/Buerste.pdf won’t work.
– ~/Documents/Buerste/Buerste.pdf _WILL_ work.

By: Rossi

Rossi — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:14:51 +0000

Hi,
Nice review. I just wanted to let you know that pdf-meta is still there and still supported.

I programmed it for personal use but I will try to improve the look and integration for OSX (even if I do not run it on OSX).
Change request for improvements are always welcome in the project issue tracker.

Have fun,
– Rossi

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:13:18 +0000

Hi,
Perhaps you can also help here a bit:
a. Is there a way to replicate the meta-data from iTunes into the pdfs?
b. The Send-to-Kindle app doesn’t read the metadata from pdfs for some reason, is there another way to transfer the pdfs to kindle and make the kindle receive the metadata as well?

By: mike

mike — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:14:17 +0000

Thanks Hugo I didn’t know that!

By: hugo

hugo — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:01:55 +0000

The functionality to edit PDF meta data is actually built into OSX in the form of some automator actions.
If you open the automator application you will need to add two actions to a workflow.
1) Ask for Finder Items (Under files and folders in the library)
2) Set PDF metadata (under pdf in the library)

Edit the meta data fields and run the workflow…
You can accomplish a lot of tasks with automator including merging PDFs

By: Jake

Jake — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:10:43 +0000

Thanks, I’ve been looking for one. I found PDFInfo to be very useful.