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* Home
* Screenshots
* Downloads
* Credits
* User guide
* User manual
* Installation
[IMG]
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Features:
* 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.
* 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
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Things lacking, coming in the not too far future:
* 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
now.
* Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently.
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* Documentation and help.
* A few more filters for less common file types.
Using recoll
* Use File->Index to build/rebuild the database (what to index is
defined in the configuration file, see the install doc).
* Enter search terms in the upper left text field. There is no query
language right now, the search only understand probabilistic terms
(just words...), and double-quote enclosed phrases. Click Search or
type CR
* A result list should appear in the left pane. You can use the
Next/Prev buttons to paginate.
* Clicking on an entry in the list will display a preview in the right
pane -- This can take some time for big postscript or pdf files, as
the file is converted on the fly for preview --
* Double-clicking on an entry should launch an external viewer, as
specified in the mimeconf file (see INSTALL). This doesn't work for
compressed files for now.
I very much welcome suggestions or (gasp) code
In hope that this can be useful to somebody, it already is for me.
Downloads
Current version: 1.0 (tar.gz)
Older: 0.7
Installation
Prerequisites
At the very least, you will need to download and install the xapian core
package (I am currently using xapian version 0.8.5), and the qt runtime
and development packages (I am currently using qt 3.3.3).
You will most probably be able to find a binary package for qt for your
system. You may have to compile xapian, but this is not difficult.
You also need libiconv. I am currently using version 1.9. The iconv
interface is part of libc on Linux systems, you shouldn't need to do
anything there.
External file types: recoll uses external applications to index some file
types. You need to install them for the file types that you wish to have
indexed:
* MS Word documents: antiword.
* PDF files: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
* Postscript files: pstotext.
Compiling, installing, using
See the INSTALL file.
Credits
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
include the relevant copyright attributions with the code. Any omission is
unintentional and will be fixed as soon as notified.