Is there a way to read the excel file properties using xlrd?
I refer not to cell presentation properties, but general workbook properties.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Apart from the username (last person to save the worksheet) the Book instance as returned by open_workbook does not seem to have any properties. 
I recursively dumped the Book ( dumping its dict if a xlrd.BaseObject) and could not find anything in that way. The test files for sure had
an author, company and some custom metadata.
FWIW: LibreOffice does not seem to be able to find author and company either (or does not display them), but it does show custom metadata in the properties.
Read workbook properties using python and xlrd