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<title>RECOLL: a personal text search system for
Unix/Linux</title>
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<li><a href="http://www.recoll.org">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="pics/index.html">Screenshots</a></li>
<li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li>
<li><a href="doc.html">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="devel.html">Helping out</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">1.16.0</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. (Qt 3 is supported up to release 1.14.x).</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><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>
<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. I can reproduce the problem
and I am working on a correction. Meanwhile, there are two possible
workarounds:<br>
<ul>
<li>(Recommended) Use the command
line <tt>recollindex</tt> program to perform indexing
(usually just type "recollindex" in a console, or see "man
recollindex").</li>
<li>Do not run queries in <tt>recoll</tt> while the indexing thread
is running (as indicated in the bottom status line).</li>
</ul>
If the workaround fails or you experience other kinds of
crashes with either <tt>recoll</tt> or <tt>recollindex</tt>, and
want to help, please follow the instructions on
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/GettingAStackTrace">
this wiki page</a>.</p>
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<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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