Recoll
Recoll is a personal
full text search tool. It is a full text search application. Full text
search applications let you find your data by content rather than by
external attributes (like a file name).
Recoll is based on Xapian, a mature open source search engine
library that supports advanced features such as phrase and proximity
search, relevance feedback, document categorization, boolean queries,
and wildcard search. Recoll provides the interface to get data into
(indexing) and out (searching) of the system.
Recoll stores all internal data in Unicode UTF-8
format, and it can index files with different character sets,
encodings, and languages into the same index. It has input filters for
many document types.
The application has many parameters which define exactly what
to index, and how to classify and decode the source documents.
Features include:
- Supports most common document types
including plain
text, HTML, OpenOffice.org
documents, Mozilla Thunderbird
and Evolution
email messages, and Lyx
and Scribus
files
- With external helpers: pdf (pdftotext),
postscript (ghostscript), msword (antiword), excel, ppt (catdoc), rtf
(unrtf)
- Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases,
proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree
- Term Explorer tool
- Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based
internals
- Stemming is performed at query time and the
stemming language can be switched after indexing
- An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or
as an external, cron'able program
- Easy installation with minimal requirements - no database
daemon, web server, desktop environment or exotic language needed
Return
to Productivity Tools Home Page | Return
to Desktop Search Engines Home Page
Last Updated Monday, April 22 2013 @ 03:51 PM EDT
| 
