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
- 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.
- 08 Jan 2009 14:45
Changes: This release brings minor bugfixes. Multiple OR clauses are now handled correctly by the query language processor. The result list "Copy" command uses the clipboard in addition to the main selection, allowing ^v pasting. Multiple small fixes were made for East Asian languages, especially Japanese.
- 25 Oct 2008 20:48
Changes: The main interface now allows easy filtering of results by document type. Previews have been made nicer by using HTML when possible. A Python programming interface was added for indexing and searching. The query language is now closer to the Xesam user query language. The filter framework and the support for arbitrary field indexing and searching have been improved.
- 02 Sep 2008 09:37
Changes: This release brings OpenXML filters (for formats such as docx) and improved identification of email attachments. A few bugs were fixed: a rare problem in processing Thunderbird mailbox files, an indexer crash on extremely long file names (longer than 240), and incorrect preview highlighting for Near/Phrase searches.
- 27 May 2008 14:42
Changes: This release brings a number of small bugfixes and enhancements. A base-64 decoding problem in emails was fixed. A "Previous" button function was added in preview search. OpenSuse 11 compilation issues were resolved. An SVG filter was added. The color used for highligting search terms can be chosen. A mailing list was created to enhance communication between users and developers.
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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 :-)