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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:
indexed (these are run-time dependencies. None is needed for building
Recoll):
* PDF: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
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* djvu: DjVuLibre
* MP3: Recoll will use the id3info command from the id3lib package to
extract tag information. Without it, only the filenames will be
indexed.
Text, Html, mail folders and Openoffice files are processed internally.
4.1.2. Building

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3.1. Simple search
3.1.1. Filename search
3.2. Complex/advanced search
3.3. Document history
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Also be aware that you will need to install the appropriate supporting
applications for document types that need them (for example antiword for
ms-word files), and that the default character set used to read raw text
files for indexing is iso8859-1, which may not be appropriate for you.
ms-word files).
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applications for preprocessing. The list is in the installation section.
Without further configuration, Recoll will index all appropriate files
from your home directory, with a reasonable set of defaults, if you live
in western Europe or the USA. If your normal character set is not
iso8859-1, you almost certainly need to adjust the configuration.
from your home directory, with a reasonable set of defaults.
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1. Start the recoll program.
2. Enter search term(s) in the text field at the top of the window.
2. Possibly choose a search mode: Any term or All terms or File name.
3. Click the Search button or hit the Enter key to start the search.
3. Enter search term(s) in the text field at the top of the window.
By default, this will look for documents with any of the search terms (the
ones with more terms will get better scores). You can check the All terms
checkbox to ensure that only documents with all the terms will be
returned. Use the Tools / Advanced search dialog for more complex
searches.
4. Click the Search button or hit the Enter key to start the search.
The initial default search mode is Any term. This will look for documents
with any of the search terms (the ones with more terms will get better
scores). All terms will ensure that only documents with all the terms will
be returned. File name will specifically look for file names, and allows
using wildcards (*, ? , []).
You can use the Tools / Advanced search dialog for more complex searches.
After starting a search, a list of results will instantly be displayed in
the main list window. Clicking on the Preview link for an entry will open
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the system estimates that the document matches the query). You can specify
a different ordering by using the Tools / Sort parameters dialog.
The Preview and Edit edit links may not be present for all entries,
meaning that Recoll has no configured way to preview a given file type
(which was indexed by name only), or no configured external viewer for the
file type. This can sometimes be adjusted simply by tweaking the mimemap
and mimeconf configuration files.
You can click on the Query details link at the top of the results page to
see the query actually performed, after stem expansion and other
processing.
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3.1.1. Filename search
If the File name checkbox at the left of the search terms is checked, the
search will only done for file names. In this case you can use the usual
shell wildcard characters * and ? for expanding the search (ie
*somestring*).
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3.2. Complex/advanced search
The advanced search dialog has fields that will allow a more refined
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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:
indexed (these are run-time dependencies. None is needed for building
Recoll):
* PDF: pdftotext is part of the Xpdf package.
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* djvu: DjVuLibre
* MP3: Recoll will use the id3info command from the id3lib package to
extract tag information. Without it, only the filenames will be
indexed.
Text, Html, mail folders and Openoffice files are processed internally.
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The name of the character set used for files that do not contain a
character set definition (ie: plain text files). This can be
redefined for any subdirectory.
redefined for any subdirectory. If it is not set at all, the
character set used is the one defined by the nls environment
(LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG), or iso8859-1 if nothing is set.
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