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 1.13.00 (Changes).

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. Can use either Qt 3 or Qt 4.
• Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments.
• 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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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 !

News:

• 2010-01-05 : a 1.13.00 is out. It brings some nice improvements and new functions. Please try it and report any problems.
• 2009-12-10 : 1.12.4 is out. It fixes a problem in the preview window search function (qt4 only).
• 2008-05-22 : we now have a mailing list:
  • Subscription management
  • Archives

Support

If you have any problem with Recoll, or a suggestion for improvement, please provide feedback, preferably on the recoll-user mailing list, or directly to me.

Mailing list information:

• Subscription management
• Archives

You can also have a look at the development page for things you could do.

The list of known bugs is here

Thanks

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