Recoll

Tags: search

Alternative To: Copernic Desktop Search, Google Desktop

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

Features:
* Qt-based GUI
* Supports the following document types (and their compressed versions)
- Natively: text, html, OpenOffice files, maildir and mailbox (Mozilla and
IceDove mail) with attachments, pidgin log files
- With external helpers: pdf (pdftotext), postscript (ghostscript), msword
(antiword), excel, ppt (catdoc), rtf (unrtf)
* Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, filter on file
types and directory tree
* Support for multiple charsets, Internal processing and storage uses Unicode
UTF-8
* Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
indexing)
* Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
necessary
* An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an external,
cron'able program
Interface: Graphical (Qt)
Associated Programs
Antiword Converts MS Word files to text, PS and PDF
ASpell GNU Aspell spell-checker
catdoc MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter
FLAC Command Line Tools Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools
ghostscript interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
libid3-tools An ID3 Tag Library: Utilities
libimage-exiftool-perl Library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files
LyX Document Processor
poppler-utils PDF utilities (based on Poppler)
pstotext Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
Python interactive high-level object-oriented language (default version)
python-chm Python binding for CHMLIB
UnRTF RTF to other formats converter
untex remove LaTeX commands from input
Vorbis Tools several Ogg Vorbis tools
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 1.13.04-3+squeeze1 1.13.04-3+squeeze1
testing 1.17.3-1 1.17.3-1
sid 1.17.3-2 1.17.3-2

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 1.10.0-1 1.10.0-1
lucid 1.13.01-1 1.13.01-1
oneiric 1.15.9-1 1.15.9-1
precise 1.16.2-1 1.16.2-1

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