--- a/src/README
+++ b/src/README
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
Unix systems.
Recoll is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides
- an easy to use, feature-rich, easy-administration interface.
+ an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration interface.
Recoll is free and copyrighted under the GPL license, see COPYING inside
the distribution. A lot of the code is imported from other packages, see
@@ -24,20 +24,25 @@
Features:
- * Document types: text, html, pdf (with pdftotext), postscript (with
- ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with antiword), openoffice files,
- maildir and mailbox mail folders (Mozilla and thunderbird mail ok).
- Deals with compressed versions of same.
- * Relatively powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases,
- filter on file types and directory tree.
+ * QT-based GUI.
+ * Supports the following document types:
+ * text.
+ * html.
+ * OpenOffice files.
+ * maildir and mailbox mail folders (Mozilla and Thunderbird mail
+ ok).
+ * pdf (with pdftotext).
+ * postscript (with ghostscript's pstotext).
+ * msword (with antiword).
+ along with their compressed versions.
+ * 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. The idea is that everybody should index their files because
- it makes life easier.
- * GUI based on qt, written with qt Designer.
+ necessary.
* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an
external, cron'able program.
@@ -45,14 +50,21 @@
(versions FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Solaris 8, but other not too distant
releases should be ok too). You can download the source code here.
- Things lacking, coming in the not too far future:
+ Future evolutions
+ Things hopefully coming in the not too far future (especially with some
+ help):
+
+ * Support for the more advanced Xapian concepts like relevance feedback.
* An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for
now.
* Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently.
- * More documentation and help.
+ * A more polished user interface with online help and better
+ documentation.
* Translations for the user interface.
* A few more filters for less common file types.
+ * An history tool for queries and documents.
+ * Integration with the KDE desktop.
I very much welcome suggestions or (gasp) code.
@@ -80,7 +92,7 @@
package.
* Iconv, for character set conversion.
* Binc IMAP for MIME parsing code.
- * I fear the rest of the bugs to be mostly mine:
+ * I fear that bugs found elsewhere are mostly mine:
jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr
* Home
* Screenshots
@@ -132,7 +144,7 @@
The advanced search dialog has fields that will allow a more refined
search, looking for documents with all given words, a given exact phrase,
- or none of the given words (all fields may be combined by a default AND
+ or none of the given words (all fields may be combined by an implicit AND
clause).
It will let you search for documents of specific mime types (ie: only
@@ -141,4 +153,4 @@
It will let you restrict the search results to a subtree of the indexed
area.
- In other respects, it works as the simple search.
+ In other respects, it works like the simple search.