From 97c52f3666b1213145e8d00ae73ceae1f345ab99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dockes Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:37:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] *** empty log message *** --- src/README | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index 8e3f2c08..de9d87c0 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -2,6 +2,61 @@ A more complete version of this document can be found at http://www.recoll.org + * Home + * Screenshots + * Credits + * Downloads + * Installation + * User manual + [IMG] + +Recoll + + Recoll is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and other + Unix systems. + + Recoll is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides + an easy to use, feature-rich, easy-administration interface. + + Recoll is free and copyrighted under the GPL license, see COPYING inside + the distribution. A lot of the code is imported from other packages, see + the Credits. + + Features: + + * Document types: text, html, pdf (with 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 + indexing) + * Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language + necessary. The idea is that everybody should index their files because + it makes life easier. + * GUI based on qt, written with qt Designer. + * An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an + external, cron'able program. + + Recoll has been compiled and tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris + (versions FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Solaris 8, but other not too distant + releases should be ok too). You can download the source code here. + + Things lacking, coming in the not too far future: + + * An interactive configuration tool. You need to edit files by hand for + now. + * Packages, rpm or other. It's all tar files currently. + * Documentation and help. + * Translations for the user interface. + * A few more filters for less common file types. + + I very much welcome suggestions or (gasp) code. + + In hope that this can be useful to somebody, it already is for me. * Home * Screenshots * Credits