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<h1 class="intro">Recoll features</h1>
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<dt><a name="systems">Supported systems</a></dt>
<dd><span class="application">Recoll</span> has been compiled and
tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris (versions
FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Fedora Core 4, 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 <a href="download.html">here</a>.</dd>
<dd>Qt versions from 3.1</dd>
<dt><a name="doctypes">Document types</a></dt>
<dd>Supports the following document types (along with their
compressed versions):
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<dt>Natively</dt>
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<li><var class="literal">text</var>.</li>
<li><var class="literal">html</var>.</li>
<li><span class="application">OpenOffice</span>
files.</li>
<li><var class="literal">maildir</var> and <var
class="literal">mailbox</var> (<span class=
"application">Mozilla</span>, <span class=
"application">Thunderbird</span> and <span class=
"application">Evolution</span> mail ok).</li>
<li><span class="application">gaim</span> log files.</li>
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<dt>With external helpers</dt>
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<li><var class="literal">pdf</var> with <a href=
"http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">xpdf</a>.</li>
<li><var class="literal">postscript</var> with <a
href=
"http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html">
ghostscript</a> and <a href=
"http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm">pstotext</a>.</li>
<li><var class="literal">msword</var> with <a href=
"http://www.winfield.demon.nl/">antiword</a>.</li>
<li><var class="literal">rtf</var> with <a href=
"http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html">unrtf</a>.</li>
<li><var class="literal">dvi</var> with
<a href="http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html">dvips</a>.
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<li><var class="literal">djvu</var> with
<a href="http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/doc/index.html">DjVuLibre</a>.
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<li><var class="literal">mp3</var> tags support with
<a href="http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/">id3info (id3lib)</a>.
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<dt>Other features</dt>
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<li>Multiple selectable databases.</li>
<li>Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches,
phrases, filter on file types and directory tree.</li>
<li>Specific file name searches with wildcards.</li>
<li>Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and
storage uses Unicode UTF-8.</li>
<li>Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming
language after indexing).</li>
<li>Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or
exotic language necessary.</li>
<li>An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI
or as an external, cron'able program.</li>
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