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
- 08 Nov 2011 22:33
Release Notes: This release fixes a number of small to annoying bugs, especially a problem with the result list links on newer Qt releases (e.g. OpenSUSE 12.1), and a few indexing crashes in relatively marginal cases.
- 29 Sep 2011 12:29
Release Notes: This version fixes a frequent, annoying crash when running a query in the GUI with the indexing thread running.
- 21 Sep 2011 14:24
Release Notes: This is a small improvements and bugfixes release. Among the many small changes are image displays in previews, negative directory filtering, additional entries in popup menus, searches anchored to the beginning or end of documents, table display improvements, and additional filters.
- 29 May 2011 18:33
Release Notes: This fixes an architecture-dependant startup crash in 1.15.8. There is no need to upgrade if you are not experiencing it.
- 03 May 2011 21:21
Release Notes: This release fixes a few bugs: indexer crashes following errors on zip archive members, rare GUI crashes when using the preview while the indexing thread is running, and other miscellaneous weirdnesses. New features: negative filtering on directory, field searches in the structured search panel, and filters for some Web archive format (.war and .mhtm).
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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