Kat - Desktop Search Engine for Linux 0.6.4 review

Kat is an application for KDE designed to index files

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Roberto Cappuccio

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Kat is an application for KDE designed to index files. Meta information, fulltext and thumbnails are extracted from documents, images, mp3 and other media allowing quick and accurate information retrieval.

Similar to the Windows application WhereIsIt, but also similar to Google Desktop Search, Kat is completely written in C++, using Qt3, KDE and KIO libraries.

The application is based on the extensible kfile plugin architecture of KDE in order to facilitate the creation of new media managers for emerging file formats.

Kat is the first KDE application using the new fulltext kfile plugins.
Information retrieval relies on the powerful SQLite3 embedded database engine.

Supported document formats for full text search:
Documents:

Adobe PDF Portable Document Format (1.5)
DOC Microsoft Word Document (2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003)
HTML HyperText Markup Language
SXW OpenOffice 1.3 Writer Text Document
SXI OpenOffice 1.3 Impress Presentation
SXC OpenOffice 1.3 Calc Spreadsheet
SXM OpenOffice 1.3 Math Formula
ODT OpenOffice 2.0 Writer Text Document
ODP OpenOffice 2.0 Impress Presentation
ODC OpenOffice 2.0 Calc Chart
ODF OpenOffice 2.0 Math Formula
Plain Text

Images:

BMP
CGM
DCX
DIB
FAX
GIF
ICO
JPEG
PBM
PCD
PCX
PDB
PGM
PICT
PIX
PNG
RGB
RLE
TGA
TIF
...and other

Requirements:
libsqlite3-dev (3.2.1-1)
libpoppler-qt-dev (0.3.1)

Installation:

make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure --prefix=/usr (or else...)
make
make install (you have to be root)

THE PROJECT IS SEARCHING FOR:

- Developers (C++/QT3)
- KFile plugins developers
- Packagers
- Translators
- Testers
- Documentation writers (NEW)
- WebDesigners for the Kat site (NEW)

What's New in This Release:
Added docbook fulltext search plugin
Added debian package fulltext search plugin
Added R script meta data and fulltext search plugins
Patches from Mandriva (thanx to Laurent):
Fixed layout
The GUI is updated when a user clears search
Fixed load config
Fixed exclude
Fixed inotify code
Fixed html fulltext code
Fixes for multibyte character encoding
It is possible to insert properties for the catalog using multibyte characters (name, author, description, notes)
It is possible to specify a directory containing multibyte characters as base folder for the catalogs
Kat is now able to index folders and files containing multibyte characters in their names
It is possible to index and search multibyte encoded documents (except RTF docs)
Added rpm fulltext plugin
Wrapper for sqlite3 completely rewritten in order to use Qt classes
Fulltext compression reintroduced
Fixed crash on exit
Completely rewritten HTML plugin with HTML entities conversion
Introduced auto_vacuum pragma in QSLite3 in order to shrink the database whenever records are deleted