Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux.

It is based on the very strong Xapian back-end, for which it provides a feature-rich yet easy to use front-end with a QT graphical interface.

Recoll is free, open source, and licensed under the GPL. The current version is 1.8.2

We borrow a lot of code from other packages, and welcome code and ideas from contributors, see the Credits.

Recoll user ? Maybe there are still a few useful tricks that you don't know about. A quick look at the search tips might prove useful !

Features:

Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
Will run on most unix-based systems
QT-based GUI.
Supports most common document types.
Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.
Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
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There are new filters for kword and abiword files in the new filters section. These are usable with an existing Recoll 1.8 installation.

If you have any problem with Recoll, its installation, or an idea for improvement, please provide feedback. Also see the development page.