Recoll is a personal full text search tool for Unix/Linux.
It is based on the very strong Xapian back-end, for which it provides a feature-rich yet easy to use front-end with a Qt graphical interface.
Recoll is free, open source, and licensed under the GPL. The current version is 1.13.02 (Changes).
Features:
- Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
- Will run on most Unix-based systems
- Qt-based GUI. Can use either Qt 3 or Qt 4.
- Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments.
- Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.
- Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
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Recoll user ? Maybe there are still a few useful tricks that you don't know about. A quick look at the search tips might prove useful !
News:
- 2010-01-29 : the full Recoll source repository is now hosted on Bitbucket, along with a Wiki and an issues tracking system. Hopefully, this new channel for reporting bugs and make suggestions will increase the feedback rate...
- 2010-01-05 : a 1.13.02 is out. It brings some nice improvements and new functions. Please try it and report any problems.
- 2009-12-10 : 1.12.4 is out. It fixes a problem in the preview window search function (qt4 only).
- 2008-05-22 : we now have a mailing list:
Support
If you have any problem with Recoll, or a suggestion for improvement, please provide feedback. There are three possible channels, depending on your preferences:
- The issues tracking system on Bitbucket.
- The recoll-user mailing list.
- Direct email.
Mailing list information:
You can also have a look at the development page for things you could do.
The list of known bugs is here
Thanks
We borrow a lot of code from other packages, and welcome code and ideas from contributors, see the Credits.