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    <title>RECOLL: a personal text search system for
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	<li><a href="http://www.recoll.org">Home</a></li>
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      <h1><a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
	a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux.</h1>

      <p>It is based on the very strong <a href=
	  "http://www.xapian.org">Xapian</a> back-end, for which it
	provides a feature-rich yet easy to use front-end with a Qt
	graphical interface.</p>

      <p><span class="application">Recoll</span> is free, open source,
	and licensed under the GPL. The current version is
	<a class="important" href="download.html">1.16.2</a> 
	(<a href="release-1.16.html">Release notes</a>).</p>

      <h2>Features: </h2>

      <ul>
        <li>Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon,
	  web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.</li>
	<li>Will run on most Unix-based <a
	    href="features.html#systems">systems</a></li> 
        <li>Qt 4 GUI, plus command line, KIO and krunner interfaces.</li>

        <li>Searches most common 
	  <a href="features.html#doctypes">document types</a>, emails and
	    their attachments. Transparently handles decompression
	    (gzip, bzip2).</li> 
	
        <li>Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches,
	  phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory
	  tree. </li>

        <li>Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based
	  internals.</li> 

	<li>Extensive documentation, with a
	  complete <a href="usermanual/usermanual.html">user
	    manual</a> and manual pages for each command.</li>

	<li><a class="weak" href="features.html">(more detail)</a></li>
      </ul>

      <p><i>Recoll can 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 let you open a copy of the file
	  without any fuss. There is little that will remain hidden on 
	  your disk :)</i></p>

      <p><b><i>Recoll user ?</i></b> Maybe there are still a few useful
	  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.</p>


      <h2>News: </h2>
      <ul>

        <li>2011-11-07: release <a href="download.html#source">1.16.2</a>
          is out. It fixes a number of <a href="BUGS.html#b_1_16_1">
          bugs</a> in 1.16.1, ranging from small to ennoying depending on
          usage.</li>

        <li>2011-09-28: release <a href="download.html#source">1.16.1</a>
          is out. It fixes a GUI crash in 1.16.0 (see below) and a lyx filter
          issue.</li> 

        <li>
          <div class="important">
            <p>Notice for 1.16.0: the
              <tt>recoll</tt> GUI program sometimes crashes when running a query
              while the indexing thread is active. You should upgrade
              to 1.16.1</p> 
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        </li>

        <li>2011-09-03: release <a href="download.html#source">1.16.0</a>
          is out with many <a href="release-1.16.html">small improvements</a>
          over 1.15. </li>

        <li>2011-05-29: release 
          <a href="download.html#source">1.15.9</a> fixes a startup
          crash in 1.15.8. This occurs only on some architectures, and
          if you are not experiencing the problem (it happens every
          time if at all), you do not need to upgrade.
        </li>


        <li>2010-11-20 : wrote a small script so that recoll can be
          activated or hidden with a single keystroke on the gnome
          desktop. See the 
          <a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/HotRecoll">
            installation recipee here</a>.</li>

        <li>2010-01-29 : the full Recoll source repository is now
          hosted on 
	  <a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll">Bitbucket</a>,
          along with a Wiki
          (<a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/FaqsAndHowTos">
          Faqs and Howtos</a>) and an
          <a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issues">
	    issues tracking system</a>. Hopefully, this
          new channel for reporting bugs and make suggestions will
          increase the feedback rate...</li>

      </ul>
	
      <h2><a name="support">Support</a></h3>

      <p>If you have any problem with Recoll, or a suggestion for
  	improvement, <em>please</em> provide feedback. There are three
  	possible channels, depending on your preferences:
	<ul>
          <li>The <a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issues">
	      issues tracking system</a> on Bitbucket.</li>
           <li>The <a href="http://www.freelists.org/list/recoll-user">
	       recoll-user</a> mailing list.</li>
          <li>Direct <a href="mailto:jfd@recoll.org">email</a>.</li>
        </ul>
      </p>

      <p>Mailing list information:
	<ul>
	  <li><a href="http://www.freelists.org/list/recoll-user">
	      Subscription management</a></li>
	  <li><a href="http://www.freelists.org/archives/recoll-user">
	      Archives </a></li>
	</ul>
      </p>

      <p>You can also have a look at
	the <a href="devel.html">development</a> page for things you
	could do.</p>  

      <p>The list of known bugs is <a href="BUGS.html">here</a></p>

      <h2>Thanks</h2>
      <p>We borrow a lot of code
	from other packages, and welcome code and ideas from
	contributors, see the 
	<a class="important" href="credits.html">Credits</a>.</p>

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