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Recoll is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and other
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Recoll is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and other
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Unix systems.
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Unix systems.
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Recoll is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides
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Recoll is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides
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an easy to use, feature-rich, easy-administration interface.
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an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration interface.
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Recoll is free and copyrighted under the GPL license, see COPYING inside
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Recoll is free and copyrighted under the GPL license, see COPYING inside
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the distribution. A lot of the code is imported from other packages, see
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the distribution. A lot of the code is imported from other packages, see
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the Credits.
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the Credits.
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Features:
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Features:
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* Document types: text, html, pdf (with pdftotext), postscript (with
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* QT-based GUI.
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ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with antiword), openoffice files,
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* Supports the following document types:
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* text.
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* html.
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* OpenOffice files.
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maildir and mailbox mail folders (Mozilla and thunderbird mail ok).
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* maildir and mailbox mail folders (Mozilla and Thunderbird mail
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ok).
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* pdf (with pdftotext).
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* postscript (with ghostscript's pstotext).
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* msword (with antiword).
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Deals with compressed versions of same.
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along with their compressed versions.
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* Relatively powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases,
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* Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on
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filter on file types and directory tree.
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file types and directory tree.
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* Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
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* Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
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Unicode UTF-8.
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Unicode UTF-8.
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* Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
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* Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
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indexing)
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indexing)
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* Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
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* Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
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necessary. The idea is that everybody should index their files because
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necessary.
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it makes life easier.
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* GUI based on qt, written with qt Designer.
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* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
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* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
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external, cron'able program.
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external, cron'able program.
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Recoll has been compiled and tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris
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Recoll has been compiled and tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris
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(versions FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Solaris 8, but other not too distant
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(versions FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Solaris 8, but other not too distant
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releases should be ok too). You can download the source code here.
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releases should be ok too). You can download the source code here.
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Things lacking, coming in the not too far future:
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Future evolutions
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Things hopefully coming in the not too far future (especially with some
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help):
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* Support for the more advanced Xapian concepts like relevance feedback.
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* An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for
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* An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for
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now.
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now.
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* Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently.
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* Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently.
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* More documentation and help.
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* A more polished user interface with online help and better
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documentation.
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* Translations for the user interface.
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* Translations for the user interface.
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* A few more filters for less common file types.
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* A few more filters for less common file types.
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* An history tool for queries and documents.
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* Integration with the KDE desktop.
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I very much welcome suggestions or (gasp) code.
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I very much welcome suggestions or (gasp) code.
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In hope that this can be useful to somebody, it already is for me.
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In hope that this can be useful to somebody, it already is for me.
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* Home
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* Home
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* Unac: for accent removal. This is a relatively small package, not that
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* Unac: for accent removal. This is a relatively small package, not that
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easy to find, it has been integrated almost unmodified in the Recoll
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easy to find, it has been integrated almost unmodified in the Recoll
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package.
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package.
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* Iconv, for character set conversion.
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* Iconv, for character set conversion.
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* Binc IMAP for MIME parsing code.
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* Binc IMAP for MIME parsing code.
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* I fear the rest of the bugs to be mostly mine:
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* I fear that bugs found elsewhere are mostly mine:
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jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr
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jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr
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* Home
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* Home
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* Screenshots
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* Screenshots
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* Credits
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* Credits
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* Downloads
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* Downloads
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Complex/advanced search
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Complex/advanced search
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The advanced search dialog has fields that will allow a more refined
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The advanced search dialog has fields that will allow a more refined
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search, looking for documents with all given words, a given exact phrase,
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search, looking for documents with all given words, a given exact phrase,
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or none of the given words (all fields may be combined by a default AND
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or none of the given words (all fields may be combined by an implicit AND
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clause).
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clause).
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It will let you search for documents of specific mime types (ie: only
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It will let you search for documents of specific mime types (ie: only
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text/plain, or text/html or application/pdf etc...)
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text/plain, or text/html or application/pdf etc...)
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It will let you restrict the search results to a subtree of the indexed
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It will let you restrict the search results to a subtree of the indexed
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area.
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In other respects, it works as the simple search.
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In other respects, it works like the simple search.
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