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. 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
- 16 Apr 2010 11:31
Changes: This version fixes a serious bug with stemming in the 1.13 series.
- 05 Jan 2010 18:21
Changes: This release has a new class of persistent filters that allow processing new file types (zip archives, chm files, and icalendar files) and improve performance for image files. It can now index Firefox visited Web pages. Its handling of very big text files (e.g. logs) has been greatly improved (no more "out of memory" errors). There are many other small performance and usability improvements.
- 29 Oct 2009 13:54
Changes: This release fixes a single bug: when built with at least some versions of Qt3, the sort tool was inactive (the Apply button did nothing).
- 22 Oct 2009 14:03
Changes: This is a bugfix release. A number of small to annoying bugs have been fixed in the GUI and the indexing program.
- 11 Feb 2009 16:20
Changes: This version includes a KDE KIO slave module. Identical results can be collapsed. Context-sensitive F1 help was added. Email attachments and other embedded documents can be saved to files. Other small improvements and bugfixes were made.
Heartbeat
- Popularity Score
- 215.04
- Vitality Score
- 20.61
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Recent commentsExcellent 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 :-)