Recoll features

Supported systems

Recoll has been compiled and tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris (versions FreeBSD 5.5, Redhat 7.3, Fedora Core 5, Suse 10.1, Gentoo, Debian 3.1, Solaris 8/9, but other not too distant releases should be ok too). You can download the source code and some precompiled packages here.

Qt versions from 3.1

Document types

Supports the following document types (along with their compressed versions):

Natively

• text.
• html.
• OpenOffice files.
• maildir and mailbox (Mozilla, Thunderbird and Evolution mail ok).
• gaim log files.

With external helpers

• pdf with xpdf.
• postscript with ghostscript and pstotext.
• msword with antiword.
• Powerpoint and Excel with the catdoc utilities.
• rtf with unrtf.
• dvi with dvips.
• djvu with DjVuLibre.
• mp3 tags support with id3info (id3lib).

Other features

• Multiple selectable databases.
• Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on file types and directory tree.
• Specific file name searches with wildcards.
• 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.