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Recoll
Introduction
This is Recoll, a personal full text indexing system.
Recoll is free and copyrighted under the GPL license, see COPYING inside
the distribution. A lot of the code is imported from other packages, see
the Credits.
Recoll is still in infancy, but it is based on a very strong backend
(Xapian), and it can actually be useful right now, which is why I release
it so early.
See INSTALL inside the distribution for compiling and installing, very
much by hand for now, I hope it will become better in the near future.
Features:
* Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
necessary. The idea is that EVERYBODY should index their files because
it makes life easier.
* Indexes text, pdf, html, postscript. Deals with compressed versions of
same.
* Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
Unicode UTF-8.
* An ugly GUI, qt-based, written with qt Designer.
* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
external, cron'able program.
Things lacking, coming in the not too far future:
* A more sophisticated query interface: the current one has no boolean
capabilities, and performance problems with stemming.
* A pretty GUI (see above)
* Mail folder indexing. It would be quite easy to add for single message
folders right now, more complicated for concatenated ones, I intend to
do it.
* An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for
now.
* Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently.
* A build system, autoconf et al.
* Documentation and help.
* More filters for other file types (MS, openoffice), this is coming
too, this is not hard as it will rely on external packages like the
existing filters.
Using recoll
* Use File->Index to build/rebuild the database.
* Enter search terms in the upper left text field. There is no query
language right now, the search only understand probabilistic terms
(just words...), and double-quote enclosed phrases. Click Search or
type CR
* A result list should appear in the left pane. You can use the
Next/Prev buttons to paginate.
* Clicking on an entry in the list will display a preview in the right
pane -- This can take some time for big postscript or pdf files, as
the file is converted on the fly for preview --
* Double-clicking on an entry should launch an external viewer, as
specified in the mimeconf file (see INSTALL). This doesn't work for
compressed files for now.
I very much welcome suggestions or (gasp) code
In hope that this can be useful to somebody, it already is for me.
Downloads
Version 0.5 (tar.gz)
Installation
See the INSTALL file.
Credits
Recoll is mainly a little glue code, and most of the intelligent work uses
code from external projects (xapian, estraier, unac, iconv).
Recoll borrows (steals?) heavily from the following projects. I tried to
include the relevant copyright attributions with the code. Any omission is
unintentional and will be fixed as soon as notified.
* Xapian: The database module (core) is used unmodified, and quite a lot
of code has been borrowed from Omega, the web-based search application
(ie: the html parser, plus miscellaneous bits and ideas).
* Estraier: Miscellaneous bits of codes and ideas, especially for
charset handling, and code from external filters.
* Unac: for accent removal. This is a relatively small package, not that
easy to find, it has been integrated almost unmodified in the Recoll
package.
* Iconv, for character set conversion.
jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr
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