--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -21,7 +21,10 @@
Recoll is still in infancy, but it is based on a very strong backend
(Xapian), and it can actually be useful right now, which is why I release
- it so early.
+ it so early. You might be interested in using Recoll to index your home
+ directory instead of xapian's Omega, for example, if you do not want to
+ run a web server, or your data is not iso-8859-1. But the query features
+ are very, very, much weaker.
See INSTALL inside the distribution for compiling and installing, very
much by hand for now, I hope it will become better in the near future.
@@ -31,34 +34,36 @@
* Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
necessary. The idea is that EVERYBODY should index their files because
it makes life easier.
- * Indexes text, pdf, html, postscript. Deals with compressed versions of
- same.
+ * Indexes text, html, pdf (with xpdf's pdftotext),postscript (with
+ ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with antiword), and openoffice files.
+ Deals with compressed versions of same.
* Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
Unicode UTF-8.
+ * Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
+ indexing)
* An ugly GUI, qt-based, written with qt Designer.
* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
external, cron'able program.
Things lacking, coming in the not too far future:
+ * Mail folder indexing. It would be quite easy to add for single message
+ folders right now, more complicated for concatenated ones. This is
+ first priority.
* A more sophisticated query interface: the current one has no boolean
- capabilities, and performance problems with stemming.
+ capabilities.
* A pretty GUI (see above)
- * Mail folder indexing. It would be quite easy to add for single message
- folders right now, more complicated for concatenated ones, I intend to
- do it.
* An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for
now.
* Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently.
* A build system, autoconf et al.
* Documentation and help.
- * More filters for other file types (MS, openoffice), this is coming
- too, this is not hard as it will rely on external packages like the
- existing filters.
+ * A few more filters for less common file types.
Using recoll
- * Use File->Index to build/rebuild the database.
+ * Use File->Index to build/rebuild the database (what to index is
+ defined in the configuration file, see the install doc).
* Enter search terms in the upper left text field. There is no query
language right now, the search only understand probabilistic terms
(just words...), and double-quote enclosed phrases. Click Search or
@@ -78,7 +83,9 @@
Downloads
- Version 0.5 (tar.gz)
+ Current version: 0.6 (tar.gz)
+
+ Older: 0.5
Installation