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 1.15.2 (Release notes).

Features:

• Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
• Will run on most Unix-based systems
• Qt 4 GUI. (Older releases can use Qt 3).
• Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments. Transparently handles decompression (gzip, bzip2).
• 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.
• (more detail)

Recoll can index an MS-Word document stored as an attachment to an e-mail message inside a Thunderbird folder archived in a Zip file (and more...). It will also let you open a copy of the file without any fuss. There is little that will remain hidden on your disk :)

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 ! Also the Faqs and Howtos on bitbucket.org.

News:

• 2011-02-13 : Recoll 1.15.2 is out. This brings important GUI improvements, with a new switchable table-based result list, and direct access to sort functions. See the Release notes.
• 2010-11-29 : Recoll 1.14.4 is out. This is a small bugs fix release, the important changes were in 1.14.2. 1.14.4 was released a few days after 1.14.3 because of an ennoying email preview bug in the latter.
• 2010-11-20 : wrote a small script so that recoll can be activated or hidden with a single keystroke on the gnome desktop. See the installation recipee here.
• 2010-01-29 : the full Recoll source repository is now hosted on Bitbucket, along with a Wiki ( Faqs and Howtos) and an issues tracking system. Hopefully, this new channel for reporting bugs and make suggestions will increase the feedback rate...

Support

If you have any problem with Recoll, or a suggestion for improvement, please provide feedback. There are three possible channels, depending on your preferences:

• The issues tracking system on Bitbucket.
• The recoll-user mailing list.
• Direct email.

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.