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<h1><img align="center" src="pics/recoll64.png"/>
<a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
a desktop full-text search tool.</h1>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> finds keywords
inside documents as well as file names.</p>
<ul>
<li>It can search
most <span class="important"><a href="features.html#doctypes">document
formats</a></span>. <a href="features.html#doctypes">You may
need external applications for text extraction</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> and
application requirements for supported document types.</li>
</ul>
<p>The current <span class="application">Recoll</span> version is
<a href="download.html">1.21.6</a>
(<a href="release-1.21.html">Release notes</a>,
<a href="BUGS.html">known
bugs</a>, <a href="release-history.html">Release history</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 a PDF at the right
page with two clicks. There is little that will remain
hidden on your disk.</p>
<p>Recoll has extensive <a href="doc.html">
documentation</a>. If you run into a problem, or want to
propose improvements, you are welcome to use
the <a href="support.html">
<span class="important">mailing list or problem
tracker</span></a>.</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.html#RCL.SEARCH.GUI.TIPS">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>
<div class="news">
<dl>
<dt>2016-04-14</dt><dd>Release 1.22.0 is now available from
the download area. The binary packages should wait until
enough brave souls have tested it. See
the <a href="release-1.22.html">the release notes</a>.</dd>
<dt>2016-04-07</dt><dd>Release 1.21.6 adds KDE5 compatibility
for the KIO slave.</dd>
<dt>2016-01-29</dt><dd>Release 1.21.5 is out. It fixes a
relatively nasty bug affecting all previous 1.21 versions:
the query language parser processed incorrectly multiple
mime type or category specifications, with missing results
as a consequence </dd>
<dt>2016-01-12</dt><dd>It seems that we currently have a
relatively frequent problem resulting in damaged indexes. If
you are experimenting heavy reindexing (incremental indexing
takes longer than it should), or missing search results,
please take a look at the top of
the <a href="BUGS.html">known bugs page</a></dd>
<dt>2015-11-09</dt>
<dd>
<dd><a href="pics/windows-recoll.html">
<img align="left" width="100" alt="Recoll on MS-Windows"
src="pics/windows-recoll-thumb.png"></a>
<span class="important">Recoll for
MS-Windows</span>. Still a few things missing (like
real-time monitoring), but it does work, and it has a proper
installer, so you can easily get rid of it if you don't like
it. <a href="pages/recoll-windows.html">Have a look.</a>.
This is an almost-native port, based on Qt and the Windows
API, no need for Cygwin. Thanks to Christian Motz for
helping with the filter interface (and the rest). I would
love some feedback!<br clear="all">
</dd>
<dt>2015-10-17</dt>
<dd>A bug in the verification of configuration file path variables
generates spurious warnings from recollindex when the
skippedPaths variable contains elements with wildcards. This
has no consequence except for the spurious error
message.</dd>
<dt>2015-10-01</dt>
<dd>Release 1.21.2 is out, and replaces 1.20 as production
release. </dd>
<dt>2015-06-30</dt>
<dd>A new rclpdf filter, with improved compatibility with
recent poppler pdftotext
versions. See <a href="filters/filters.html">rclpdf
filter</a>.</dd>
<dt>2015-06-16</dt>
<dd>Recoll 1.21.0 is out. This has a new query parser and
should be considered an instable release, please do not
package it (1.20.6 is the one you want for stability). It
also <a href="idxthreads/forkingRecoll.html">changes the way
filters are executed</a> for better performance. See the
<a href="release-1.21.html">release notes</a> for more
detail about the few other changes.</dd>
<dt>2015-04-25</dt>
<dd>Recoll 1.20.6 is out, with mostly small fixes to
compressed file handling, which may make a big difference in
some cases. See the <a href="release-1.20.html">release
notes</a>. Of course it also incorportates the Qt 5
compatibility from 1.20.5 (Qt
5.3.2 ok, 5.2 does not work).</dd>
<dt>2015-03-30</dt>
<dd>Recoll 1.20.4 released. This fixes real time indexing of
the web history (when using the Firefox plugin).</dd>
<dt>2014-12-27</dt>
<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/">
Unrtf 21.8</a> has been released. This fixes many issues
in unrtf, some with possible security implications. You
really want to use this version.</dd>
<dt>2014-12-18</dt> <dd>Recoll 1.20.1 is out and replaces 1.19
as the main version. I have been using 1.20 for months
(along with a number of fearless builders-from-source), and
it's as stable as 1.19, with nice
small <a href="release-1.20.html">new features</a>. Packages
will follow shortly. It is recommended (but not strictly
required, see the notes) to run an index reset when
upgrading.</dd>
<dt>2014-12-10</dt> <dd>The aspell command used for
orthographic suggestions is broken on Debian Jessie (because
of an aspell packaging issue), and this will not be fixed
for the Debian release. See the <a href="BUGS.html#aspelljessie">
simple workaround here</a>.</dd>
<dt>2014-11-09</dt> <dd>If you are still running anything
older than 1.19.14p2, <span class="important">YOU SHOULD
UPGRADE</span>. In
particular, <a href="release-1.19.html#rodb">this index
corruption issue</a> leading to repeated reindexing of
documents, and possibly query problems too, can be pretty
ennoying.<br/>
GOTO <a href="download.html">download</a> and
install 1.19.14p2 or 1.20. <em>Reset your index after
upgrading (rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb)</em>.</dd>
<dt>2014-07-28</dt> <dd>A nice new application to complement
Recoll: <a href="https://github.com/pidlug/recollfs">recollfs</a>
implements a Fuse filesystem where Recoll queries are
represented as directories, the contents of which are links
to the result documents.</dd>
<dt>2014-07-16</dt> <dd>Recoll version 1.19.14p2 fixes more
resource management issues in the Python module (only the
Python package needs upgrading for this), and the processing
of Bengali characters (no more diacritics stripping).</dd>
<dt>2014-06-24</dt> <dd><a href="filters/filters.html#soff1">An
updated filter</a> for Open/LibreOffice documents. The
previous version merged words which were tab-separated in
the input.</dd>
<dt>2014-06-17</dt> <dd>The source tarball for version 1.20.0
has been released. This version has
a <a href="release-1.20.html">number of improvements</a> over
1.19, but also some incompatibilities. The first minor
releases for 1.20 may contain some functional changes in
addition to bug fixes, so they may be slightly less stable
than 1.19, and 1.19 packages remain the "safe Recoll" for
now. Still, if you build from source, there are a few nice
things in 1.20...</dd>
<dt>2014-06-07</dt> <dd>Version 1.19.14 is out and fixes a
handful of minor-to-ennoying indexing glitches (see the
<a href="release-1.19.html">Release notes</a>).</dd>
<dt>2014-05-06</dt> <dd>Version 1.19.13 is out and hopefully
fixes the remaining (rare) crashes of multithreaded
indexing.</dd>
<dt>2014-04-03</dt> <dd>I have separated the code for the
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/unity-scope-recoll">Recoll
Unity Scope</a> from the main body of code, in hope that it may
interest someone to work on it. It's Python and simple,
mostly depending on the Unity API. The Ubuntu Unity API is
apparently going to change *again* for the next version, and
I think I've seen enough of it.</dd>
<dt>2014-04-02</dt> <dd>1.19.12 is out. It's mostly identical
to 1.19.11 apart from a new parameter to change the max size
of stored attributes. No need to update in general.</dd>
<dt>2014-02-27</dt> <dd>I hear from time to time about
recollindex crashes. These appear to be quite rare, but they
do happen, and I think that they are linked to a yet unfound
bug in multithread indexing. If you experience such crashes or
stalls, you can disable multithreading by adding the following
to your recoll.conf:
<pre><tt>thrQSizes = -1 -1 -1</tt></pre>
</dd>
<dt>2014-02-27</dt><dd>While working on a
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/MuttAndRecoll">
Recoll-Mutt interface</a> I discovered incidentally that
the <a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui">Recoll
Webui Web interface</a> works quite well with the
<a href="http://links.twibright.com/">links</a> web browser
inside a terminal window. This appears to be an interesting
solution for people looking for a search interface usable in
a non-GUI environment.</dd>
<dt>2013-11-19</dt> <dd>A <a href="filters/filters.html">new
filter</a> for PowerPoint files. The previous one was
based on the ancient <b>catppt</b> from the <b>catdoc</b>
utilities and usually extracted nothing from more recent
PowerPoint files (this is about .ppt: .pptx is handled by a native
Recoll filter).</dd>
<dt>2013-05-18</dt><dd>Sometimes things
<a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/happysearch.html">
just work</a>...</dd>
<dt>2013-04-30</dt><dd>Thanks to some of its users, Recoll now
has filters to
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rcollnotesfiltr/">
index and retrieve Lotus Notes messages</a>
(some
<a href="http://richardappleby.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/you-dont-have-to-know-the-answer-to-everything-just-how-to-find-it/">
implementation notes from an early user</a>), and there is
also now a
<a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/">
Web browser interface</a> for querying your Recoll
indexes.</dd>
<dt>2012-10-25</dt> <dd>A problem with a simple workaround has caused
several reported <span class="important">recollindex
crashes</span> recently (for 1.17). 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.
</dd>
<dt>2012-09-11</dt> <dd>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>. </dd>
<dt>2012-04-07</dt><dd>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></dd>
</dl>
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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>
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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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