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: