Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux.

It is based on the very strong Xapian backend, for which it provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration, QT graphical interface.

Recoll is free, open source, and copyrighted under the GPL license. The current version is 1.4.3

We borrow a lot of code from other packages, and welcome code and ideas from contributors, see the Credits.

Recoll user ? Maybe there are still a few useful tricks that you don't know about. A quick look at the search tips might prove useful !

Features:

Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
Will run on most unix-based systems
QT-based GUI.
Supports most common document types.
Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on file types and directory tree.
Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
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If you have any problem with the package or its installation, or a need for additional features, please contact us.

We also very much welcome functional suggestions or (gasp) code, see the development page.