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+Source: recoll
+Section: x11
+Priority: optional
+Maintainer: Jean-Francois Dockes <jf@dockes.org>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), libqt3-headers, libqt3-mt-dev, qt3-dev-tools, libxapian-dev 
+Standards-Version: 3.7.2
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+Package: recoll
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Recommends: aspell
+Description: a personal full text search package with a QT GUI
+ The Recoll personal full text search package is based on a very strong 
+ backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich 
+ interface.
+ .
+ Features:
+    * QT-based GUI.
+    * Supports the following document types (and their compressed versions): 
+      - Natively: text, html, OpenOffice files, maildir and mailbox 
+        (Mozilla and Thunderbird mail ok) with attachments, gaim log files.
+      - With external helpers:  pdf (pdftotext), postscript (ghostscript),
+        msword (antiword), excel, ppt (catdoc), rtf (unrtf), 
+    * Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on
+      file types and directory tree. 
+    * Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
+      Unicode UTF-8. 
+    * Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
+      indexing) 
+    * Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
+      necessary. 
+    * An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
+      external, cron'able program. 
+ .
+  Homepage: <http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll>