Many PDF file names are not explicit, but their title is. I was looking for a mean to show PDF title in file explorer column (when using detailed view), I posted on stackexchange but did not found any solution
I was using Thunar, and I changed file explorer to thunar because some python bindings exists. It is Python nautilus project
Just install it, on arch it is python2-nautilus
package
After, you have just to read /usr/share/doc/nautilus-python/README
And check it works adding copying /usr/share/doc/nautilus-python/examples/block-size-column.py
to ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/
and selectring block-size
in column list
nautilus preferences.
Now I was sure it was possible some custom columns in nautilus detailed view. It was time to show pdf title. I've tested different python packages to get pdf title :
python2-pdfrw
package, it cannot decrypt encrypted titles... see issuepython2-pdfminer.six
, it was very slow to get PDF title for large files, slowing file explorer
I got a simple tool pdfinfo
, it is very fast to get PDF title and shows encrypted title, so I used it from python to get PDF name as you can see in pdf-name-column.py
Hi there, this is probably a long shot but do you know if there would be any way to modify this script to display PDF keyword metadata in the file explorer.