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+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>RECOLL: a personal text search system for
+    Unix/Linux</title>
+    <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
+    <meta name="Author" content="Jean-Francois Dockes">
+    <meta name="Description" content=
+    "recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux based on the powerful and mature xapian engine">
+    <meta name="Keywords" content=
+      "full text search,fulltext,desktop search,unix,linux,solaris,open source,free">
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content=
+    "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
+    <meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow">
+    <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">
+  </head>
+
+  <body>
+
+    <div class="rightlinks">
+      <ul>
+	<li><a href="http://www.recoll.org">Home</a></li>
+	<li><a href="pics/index.html">Screenshots</a></li>
+	<li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li>
+	<li><a href="usermanual/index.html">User manual</a></li>
+	<li><a href="devel.html">Development</a></li>
+      </ul>
+      <p class="indexthumb">
+      <a href="pics/index.html"><img width="100" alt=
+	  "Thumbnail of recoll main screen" src=
+	  "pics/recoll0-thumb.png"></a>
+	</p>
+
+    </div>
+
+    <div class="content">
+
+      <h1><a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
+	a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux.</h1>
+
+      <p>It is based on the very strong <a href=
+	  "http://www.xapian.org">Xapian</a> backend, for which it
+	provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration,
+	QT graphical interface.</p>
+
+      <p><span class="application">Recoll</span> is free, open source,
+	and copyrighted under the GPL license. The current version is
+	<a class="important" href="download.html">1.4.3</a></p>
+      <p>We borrow a lot of code
+	from other packages, see the <a class="important"
+	  href="credits.html">Credits</a>.</p>
+
+      <h2>Features: </h1>
+
+      <ul>
+        <li>Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon,
+	  web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.</li>
+	<li>Will run on most unix-based <a
+	    href="features.html#systems">systems</a></li> 
+        <li>QT-based GUI.</li>
+
+        <li>Supports most common <a
+	    href="features.html#doctypes">document types.</a></li>
+
+        <li>Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches,
+	  phrases, filter on file types and directory tree.</li>
+
+        <li>Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based
+	  internals.</li> 
+	<li><a class="weak" href="features.html">(more detail)</a></li>
+      </ul>
+
+      <h2><a name="support">Support</a></h3>
+
+      <p>If you have any problem with the package or its
+	installation, or a need for additional features, please <a href=
+	  "mailto:jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr">contact us</a>.</p>
+
+      <p>We also very much welcome functional suggestions or (gasp)
+	code, see the <a href="devel.html">development</a> page.</p>
+
+    </div>
+  </body>
+</html>
+