Recoll 1.6.1 review

Recoll project is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix systems. Recoll is based on a very strong

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Jean-Francois Dockes

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Recoll project is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and other Unix systems.

Recoll is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration interface.

Recoll is free and copyrighted under the GPL license, see COPYING inside the distribution. A lot of the code is imported from other packages.

Here are some key features of "Recoll":
QT-based GUI.
Supports the following document types:
text.
html.
OpenOffice files.
maildir and mailbox mail folders (Mozilla and Thunderbird mail ok).
pdf (with pdftotext).
postscript (with ghostscript's pstotext).
msword (with antiword).
along with their compressed versions.
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.

Recoll has been compiled and tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Darwin and Solaris (versions FreeBSD 5.3, Redhat 7.3, Solaris 8, but other not too distant releases should be ok too).

Requirements:
xapian core package
qt runtime and development package

What's New in This Release:
This release adds term explorer, a multimode wildcard-regexp-spell/phonetic tool to fuzzy-search the index for terms.
The advanced search window is now highly configurable and has a new proximity search type.
The result list format has become ajustable by the user, as an HTML string with %xx printf-like replacements.
A real-time indexing option supplements the standard batch indexing.
Lots of minor enhancements and fixes were made.