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<h1><a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
a text search tool for Unix and Linux desktops.</h1>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> finds keywords
inside documents as well as file names.</p>
<ul>
<li>It can search
any <a href="features.html#doctypes">document format</a>.</li>
<li>It can reach any storage place: files,
archive members, email attachments, transparently
handling decompression.</li>
<li>One click will open the document inside a native editor or
display an even quicker text preview.</li>
<li>The software is free, open source,
and licensed under the GPL.</li>
<li><a href="features.html">Detailed features</a>.
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<p>The current <span class="application">Recoll</span> version is
<a href="download.html">1.19.9</a>
(<a href="release-1.19.html">Release notes</a>,
<a href="BUGS.html">known bugs</a>).</p>
<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> is based on the very
strong <a href="http://www.xapian.org">Xapian</a> search
engine library, for which it provides a powerful text
extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical
interface.</p>
<p class="remark">Recoll will index an <b>MS-Word</b> document
stored as an <b>attachment</b> to an <b>e-mail message</b> inside
a <b>Thunderbird folder</b> archived in a <b>Zip file</b> (and
more...). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and
powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right
page with two clicks. There is little that will remain
hidden on your disk.
<a class="important" href="features.html">More details …</a></p>
<p>If you have problems with Recoll, <a href="doc.html">
documentation</a> and <a href="support.html">
support</a> are available.</p>
<p><b><i>Recoll user ?</i></b> Maybe there are still a few useful
search tricks that you don't know about. A quick look at
the <a href="usermanual/RCL.SEARCH.html#RCL.SEARCH.GUI.TIPS">search
tips</a> might prove useful ! Also the
<a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/FaqsAndHowTos">
Faqs and Howtos</a> on bitbucket.org, and some contributed
<a href="custom.html">result list formats</a>.</p>
<h2>News</h2>
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<dt>2013-11-19</dt> <dd>A <a href="filters/filters.html">new
filter</a> for PowerPoint files. The previous one was
based on the ancient <b>catppt</b> from the <b>catdoc</b>
utilities and usually extracted nothing from more recent
PowerPoint files (this is about .ppt: .pptx is handled by a native
Recoll filter).</dd>
<dt>2013-11-11</dt> <dd>1.19.9 is released. This fixes a
number of significant bugs (query date condition handling,
possible GUI crashes...).</dd>
<dt>2013-07-10</dt> <dd>The
<a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui">
recoll-webui Recoll browser access project</a>
has been updated to be compatible with Recoll
1.19 (1.18 compatibility is maintained), and add new
functions permitted by the improvements in the Python module
(previewing and downloading in addition to file:://
urls).</dd>
<dt>2013-06-07</dt><dd>Recoll 1.19.4 is out. It fixes a few
relatively minor issues in 1.19.3. See the
<a href="release-1.19.html#minor_releases">release notes</a>
for a description of the changes.</dd>
</dd>
<dt>2013-05-18</dt><dd>Sometimes things
<a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/happysearch.html">
just work</a>...</dd>
<dt>2013-04-30</dt><dd>Thanks to some of its users, Recoll now
has filters to
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rcollnotesfiltr/">
index and retrieve Lotus Notes messages</a>
(some
<a href="http://richardappleby.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/you-dont-have-to-know-the-answer-to-everything-just-how-to-find-it/">
implementation notes from an early user</a>), and there is
also now a
<a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/">
Web browser interface</a> for querying your Recoll
indexes.</dd>
<dt>2013-04-14</dt><dd>Release 1.18.2 fixes a few really minor
<a href="BUGS.html#b_1_18_1">bugs in 1.18.1</a>. I
will not package it.</dd>
<dt>2012-12-14</dt><dd>The next version of Recoll indexing will be
multithreaded, and much faster on most current
processors. The conversion has been an interesting project
with multiple stages, and I've taken
<a href="idxthreads/threadingRecoll.html">a few notes</a>
about the transformation.</dd>
</dd>
<dt>2012-11-05</dt><dd>Recoll 1.18.1 is out. It has optional
character case and diacritics sensitivity, direct access to
the hit page when opening PDF files, complex search history,
and a host of other smaller improvements. See
the <a href="release-1.18.html">release
notes</a>.
<span class="important">Those of you not using <b>evince</b>
as a PDF/Postscript/DVI viewer may be surprised to see the
recoll GUI try to use this viewer anyway.</span>This is because
some of the new functions in 1.18 work better
with <b>evince</b>, but you can override the choice by
going to the GUI preferences, and removing
application/pdf, application/postscript and
application/dvi from the <tt>Exceptions</tt> list.
</dd>
<dt>2012-10-30</dt> <dd>Recoll has a brand new Firefox extension for
indexing visited Web pages. This is very similar to the old
Beagle plugin, but slightly better integrated (no-fuss
installation), and with a new lease on life. See
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/recollfirefox/">
Dave King's project page on sourceforge</a> and the
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexWebHistory">
page about Recoll (trivial) configuration</a>.</dd>
<dt>2012-10-25</dt> <dd>A problem with a simple workaround has caused
several reported <span class="important">recollindex
crashes</span> recently (for 1.17). If you store and index
Mozilla/Thunderbird email out of the standard location
(~/.thunderbird), you should add the following at the end of
your configuration file (e.g.:
~/.recoll/recoll.conf): <pre><tt>
[/path/to/my/mozilla/mail]
mhmboxquirks = tbird
</tt></pre> Adjust the path to your local value of course...
Without this hint, recollindex has trouble finding the
message delimiters inside the folder files, and will
possibly use all the computer's memory and crash. Apart from
crashes, which only occur for very big folders, this also
causes incorrect mail indexing.
</dd>
<dt>2012-09-21</dt><dd>An
<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/ElinksWeb">easy
way</a> to extend the "Web queue"
Recoll web history indexing mechanism to other browsers than
Firefox (Elinks in this case).
</dd>
<dt>2012-09-11</dt> <dd>A new user-contributed script for those who use
real-time indexing on laptops: stop or start indexing
according to AC power status. See the details on
the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexOnAc.wiki">
Wiki</a>. </dd>
<dt>2012-04-07</dt><dd>We now have a Chinese user manual:
Recoll现在有中文手册咯：
<a href="http://stupidbeauty.com/Blog/2012/03/recoll%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B6%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8A%E7%BF%BB%E8%AD%AF%EF%BC%8Crecoll-user-manual-2/">
Recoll中文手册，HTML</a></dd>
<dt>2012-03-27</dt> <dd>Recoll gets a Ubuntu Unity Lens. If
you are running
an Ubuntu release where this makes sense, you can install
the recoll-lens package from the
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/recoll-1.15-on">
Recoll PPA</a>. The Lens uses the Recoll GUI as a proxy to
extract and display embedded documents, which native utilities
can't reach directly. And of course you still need to run
the GUI (or the command line recollindex) to get the indexing
going !</dd>
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<h2>Thanks</h2>
<p>Recoll borrows a lot of code
from other packages, and welcomes code and ideas from
contributors, see some of the
<a class="important" href="credits.html">Credits</a>.</p>
<h2>On the side</h2>
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