# RECOLL: a personal text search system for Unix/Linux
recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux based on the powerful and mature xapian engine
Author: Jean-Francois Dockes
Keywords: full text search,fulltext,desktop search,unix,linux,solaris,open source,free

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# 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 1.8.2

We borrow a lot of code from other packages, and welcome code and ideas from contributors, see the Credits.

> 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 !

## 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.
- Supports most common document types.
- 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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## News:

There are new filters for kword and abiword files in the new filters section. These are usable with an existing Recoll 1.8 installation.

## Support

If you have any problem with Recoll, its installation, or an idea for improvement, please provide feedback. Also see the development page.