Recoll
Recoll is a personal full text desktop search tool based on Xapian. It provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration interface with a Qt-based GUI. Text, HTML, PDF, PostScript, MS Word, OpenOffice, Wordperfect, KWord, Abiword, maildir, and mailbox mail folder formats are supported, along with their compressed versions and quite a few others. Powerful query facilities are provided. Multiple character sets are supported, and internal processing and storage uses Unicode UTF-8. Stemming is performed at query time and the stemming language can be switched after indexing.
| Tags | Information Management Text Processing Indexing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX BSD FreeBSD Linux Solaris Unix |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases
- 14 May 2013 09:21
Release Notes: Faster indexing for multiprocessors, new results management features (multiple attachment saves, duplicate listing), advanced search history storage, and other performance and usability enhancements.
- 05 Nov 2012 23:33
Release Notes: This release brings case- and diacritics-sensitive searches, complex search history recall, direct access to PDF page hits, and a number of other new features and bugfixes.
- 24 May 2012 21:39
Release Notes: This release fixes an email indexing crash.
- 17 May 2012 18:30
Release Notes: This release fixes a few minor bugs in 1.17.0, including thumbnails not showing up for some files and incomplete output from the chm filter.
- 24 Mar 2012 23:22
Release Notes: This release adds a number of usability improvements, including management of indexing operations from the GUI, filtering on file sizes, extended directory filtering, Ubuntu Unity Lens, thumbnails in result lists, Okular notes, and Gnumeric filters.
Recent comments
Excellent product
Do you plan to add the ability to index smb shares? How can I help?
This is HUGE -- exceptional piece of software
I've recently changed from Windows to Kubuntu. I
tried beagle, I tried strigi, I tried google desktop
search. Non of the search tools were even close
to what I wanted.
I was quite frustrated and was already trying to
run old versions of CopernicDesktopSearch (the
tool I liked best when I ran Windows) in Wine.
But now the pain is over! Recoll is so much better
than any of those other solutions! I haven't used
it a lot, but it looks extremely powerful, so far!
Give it a try.
recoll-1.7.5
I've followed the versions from 1.1 up to present 1.7.5. The latest is much better even than the early versions - recommended to anyone!
Thanks. It works even better!
I was first put onto recoll by people on a Mandriva Expert mailing list and have found it genuinely good, unfussy, fast and not greedy in its demands on CPU and memory.
The further developments which I believe will be in version 1.5 are extremely valuable. I look forward to its appearing.
Re: thanks, it works!
> Release 1.1.0 is supposed to fix the case-sensitivity issue.
Whaaah, thanks -- it works indeed 8-) Rolling out updated packages for both latest stable and unstable :-)
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