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    <title>RECOLL: a personal text search system for
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    <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
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    "recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">
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      "full text search,fulltext,desktop search,unix,linux,solaris,open source,free">
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      <h1 class="intro">Recoll features</h1>
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  <dt><a name="systems">Supported systems</a></dt>
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  <dd><span class="application">Recoll</span> has been compiled and
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    tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris (versions
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    FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Fedora Core 4, Gentoo, Debian 3.1,
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    Solaris 8/9, but other not too distant releases should be ok
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    too). You can download the source code and some precompiled
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    packages <a href="download.html">here</a>.</dd>
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  <dd>Qt versions from 3.1</dd>
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        <dt><a name="doctypes">Document types</a></dt>
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  <dd>Supports the following document types (along with their
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          compressed versions): 
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            <dt>Natively</dt>
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                <li><var class="literal">text</var>.</li>
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                <li><var class="literal">html</var>.</li>
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                <li><span class="application">OpenOffice</span>
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                files.</li>
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                <li><var class="literal">maildir</var> and <var
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          class="literal">mailbox</var> (<span class=
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          "application">Mozilla</span>, <span class=
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          "application">Thunderbird</span> and <span class=
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          "application">Evolution</span> mail ok).</li>
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                <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=
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                "http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">xpdf</a>.</li>
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                <li><var class="literal">postscript</var> with <a
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                "http://www.gnu.org/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html">
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                ghostscript</a> and <a href=
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                "http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm">pstotext</a>.</li>
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                <li><var class="literal">msword</var> with <a href=
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                "http://www.winfield.demon.nl/">antiword</a>.</li>
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                <li><var class="literal">rtf</var> with <a href=
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                "http://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/unrtf.html">unrtf</a>.</li>
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      <li><var class="literal">dvi</var> with 
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        <a href="http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html">dvips</a>.
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      <li><var class="literal">djvu</var> with 
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        <a href="http://djvulibre.djvuzone.org/doc/index.html">DjVuLibre</a>. 
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      <li><var class="literal">mp3</var> tags support with 
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        <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>
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      <li>Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches,
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        phrases, filter on file types and directory tree.</li>
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      <li>Specific file name searches with wildcards.</li>
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      <li>Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and
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        storage uses Unicode UTF-8.</li>
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      <li>Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming
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        language after indexing).</li>
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      <li>Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or
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        exotic language necessary.</li>
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      <li>An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI
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        or as an external, cron'able program.</li>
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