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<h1><a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
a text search tool for Unix and Linux desktops.</h1>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> finds keywords
inside documents as well as file names.</p>
<ul>
<li>It can search
any <a href="features.html#doctypes">document format</a>.</li>
<li>It can reach any storage place: files,
archive members, email attachments, transparently
handling decompression.</li>
<li>One click will open the document inside a native editor or
display an even quicker text preview.</li>
<li>The software is free, open source,
and licensed under the GPL.</li>
<li><a href="features.html">Detailed features</a>.
</ul>
<p>The current <span class="application">Recoll</span> version is
<a href="download.html">1.17.3</a>
(<a href="release-1.17.html">Release notes</a>).</p>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> is based on the very
strong <a href="http://www.xapian.org">Xapian</a> search
engine library, for which it provides a powerful text
extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical
interface.</p>
<p class="remark">Recoll will index an <b>MS-Word</b> document
stored as an <b>attachment</b> to an <b>e-mail message</b> inside
a <b>Thunderbird folder</b> archived in a <b>Zip file</b>
(and more...). It will also help you search for it with a
friendly and powerful interface, and let you open a copy of
the file with a single mouse click. There is little that
will remain hidden on your disk.
<a class="important" href="features.html">More details …</a></p>
<p>If you have problems with Recoll, <a href="doc.html">
documentation</a> and <a href="support.html">
support</a> are available.</p>
<p><b><i>Recoll user ?</i></b> Maybe there are still a few useful
search tricks that you don't know about. A quick look at
the <a href="usermanual/rcl.search.tips.html">search
tips</a> might prove useful ! Also the
<a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/FaqsAndHowTos">
Faqs and Howtos</a> on bitbucket.org, and some contributed
<a href="custom.html">result list formats</a>.</p>
<h2>News</h2>
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<ul>
<li>2012-10-25: a problem with a simple workaround has caused
several reported <span class="important">recollindex
crashes</span> recently. If you store and index
Mozilla/Thunderbird email out of the standard location
(~/.thunderbird), you should add the following at the end of
your configuration file (e.g.:
~/.recoll/recoll.conf): <pre><tt>
[/path/to/my/mozilla/mail]
mhmboxquirks = tbird
</tt></pre> Adjust the path to your local value of course...
Without this hint, recollindex has trouble finding the
message delimiters inside the folder files, and will
possibly use all the computer's memory and crash. Apart from
crashes, which only occur for very big folders, this also
causes incorrect mail indexing.
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<li>2012-10-19: the source for <a href="recoll-1.18.001.tar.gz">
recoll 1.18.001</a> is available, and this is a call to
volunteers to test it. There are binary
packages for Ubuntu and Mint Linux users, and I can build
others. See this
<a href="http://www.freelists.org/post/recoll-user/recoll-1180-prerelease">
message</a> for more information.</li>
<li>2012-10-16: <a href="filters/filters.html">new filter for
EPUB documents</a>.</li>
<li>2012-10-16: recoll 1.18 will soon be out. It will have
optional character case and diacritics sensitivity, direct
access to hit page when opening PDF files, complex search
history, and a host of other smaller improvements. You can
already see the <a href="release-1.18.html">release
notes</a> and the snapshot currently on the
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/experiments">
"experimental" Ubuntu PPA</a> is actually a release
candidate, so Ubuntu users can take an early plunge...</li>
<li>2012-09-21: an
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/ElinksBeagle">easy
way</a> to extend the "Beagle queue"
Recoll web history indexing mechanism to other browsers than
Firefox (Elinks in this case).
</li>
<li>2012-09-13: the next Recoll version will maybe acquire switchable
case and diacritics sensitivity. I am writing
a few pages about the
issues involved, they are referenced from my
<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/113262930843833486941/posts">
google+</a> profile</li>
<li>2012-09-11: a new user-contributed script for those who use
real-time indexing on laptops: stop or start indexing
according to AC power status. See the details on
the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexOnAc.wiki">
Wiki</a>. </li>
<li>2012-06-19: update info. If you are not running Recoll 1.17.3,
you probably should. 1.17.2 and older versions have a bug which
can cause a crash of the indexing process while processing email,
under relatively common conditions.<br>
Also, if you are already running 1.17.3, you may want to install
the updated open/libre-office filter described just below.</li>
<li>2012-06-01: an
updated <a href="filters/filters.html">filter</a> for the
OpenDocument format will properly handle exported Google Docs
files.</li>
<li>2012-05-25: a
new <a href="filters/filters.html">filter</a> for indexing
tar archives.</li>
<li>2012-05-23: Release 1.17.3 mostly fixes an indexing crash that
sometimes occurred while processing email. See the
<a href="release-1.17.html">Release notes</a>.
</li>
<li>2012-04-07: we now have a Chinese user manual: Recoll现在有中文手册咯：
<a href="http://stupidbeauty.com/Blog/2012/03/recoll%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B6%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8A%E7%BF%BB%E8%AD%AF%EF%BC%8Crecoll-user-manual-2/">
Recoll中文手册，HTML</a></li>
<li>2012-03-27: Recoll gets a Ubuntu Unity Lens. If you are running
an Ubuntu release where this makes sense, you can install
the recoll-lens package from the
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/recoll-1.15-on">
Recoll PPA</a>. The Lens uses the Recoll GUI as a proxy to
extract and display embedded documents, which native utilities
can't reach directly. And of course you still need to run
the GUI (or the command line recollindex) to get the indexing
going !</li>
<li>2012-03-24: Release 1.17 is out, see
the <a href="release-1.17.html">Release notes</a>. </li>
<li>2011-11-26: the result list glitch: ennoying and easily
worked-around: it will sometimes happen (for a yet
undetermined reason) that the result list paragraph format
stored in the Qt preferences file will get garbled,
causing result lists with no displayed paragraphs (the
counts and pages are ok, the results can be seen in table
mode, but not in list mode). The workaround is to go to
<blockquote>
Preferences->Query configuration->User interface
</blockquote> and erase the result paragraph format string
(^A DEL in the text area), this will reset the string to the
default value.</li>
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<h2>Thanks</h2>
<p>Recoll borrows a lot of code
from other packages, and welcomes code and ideas from
contributors, see some of the
<a class="important" href="credits.html">Credits</a>.</p>
<h2>On the side</h2>
<div class="news">
<blockquote>
<p>We rent <a href="http://www.metairie-enbor.com/index.html.en">
a big country house</a> in the Aude area, in the south of
France (<a href="http://www.metairie-enbor.com/acces.html.en">see
map on the site</a>). If you are
looking for a wonderful country place with a pool to
spend holidays with a big bunch of family and/or
friends in a nice historical but very quiet area, this may be it.</p>
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