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Back to jf's home page
* Screenshots
* Downloads
* Credits
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the Credits.
Recoll is still in infancy, but it is based on a very strong backend
(Xapian), and it can actually be useful right now, which is why I release
it so early. You might be interested in using Recoll to index your home
directory instead of xapian's Omega, for example, if you do not want to
run a web server, or your data is not iso-8859-1. But the query features
are very, very, much weaker.
(Xapian), and I find it quite useful right now. You might be interested in
using Recoll to index your home directory instead of using xapian's Omega,
for example, if you do not want to run a web server, or your data is not
iso-8859-1. But the query features are much less sophisticated yet.
See INSTALL inside the distribution for compiling and installing, very
much by hand for now, I hope it will become better in the near future.
much by hand for now, I hope things will get better in the near future.
Features:
* Indexes text, html, pdf (with xpdf's pdftotext), postscript (with
ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with antiword), openoffice files,
maildir and mailbox mail folders (mozilla and thunderbird mail ok).
Deals with compressed versions of same.
* Supports the following document types: text, html, pdf (with xpdf's
pdftotext), postscript (with ghostscript's pstotext), msword (with
antiword), openoffice files, maildir and mailbox mail folders (mozilla
and thunderbird mail ok). Deals with compressed versions of same.
* Relatively powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases,
filter on file types and directory tree.
* Support for multiple charsets. Internal processing and storage uses
Unicode UTF-8.
* Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
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Things lacking, coming in the not too far future:
* A more sophisticated query interface: the current one has no boolean
capabilities.
* A better GUI. So many things are badly done or missing that I won't
try to list them here.
* An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for
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Credits
Recoll is mainly glue code, and most of the intelligent work uses code
Recoll is mainly glue code, and most of the intelligent parts use code
from external projects.
Recoll borrows (steals?) heavily from the following projects. I tried to
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easy to find, it has been integrated almost unmodified in the Recoll
package.
* Iconv, for character set conversion.
* Binc IMAP for mail MIME MIME parsing code.
* Binc IMAP for MIME parsing code.
jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr

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0.7
1.0