Recoll

Jul 20, 2023

Personal full text search package, based on Xapian

Recoll is a personal full text search package. It is based on a very strong backend Xapian, for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

Features

  • Free, GPL license.
  • Easy installation, few dependencies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language necessary.
  • Will run on most Unix-based systems
  • Qt 5 GUI, plus command line.
  • Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments. Transparently handles decompression gzip, bzip2.
  • Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.
  • Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
  • Extensive documentation, with a complete user manual and manual pages for each command.


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