this package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and featurerich interface.
recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.
it can search most document formats.it can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression.one click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.
avaliable through repositories
features:* qtbased gui* will run on most unixbased systems* powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.* 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 utf8. multilanguage and multicharacter set with unicode based internals.* stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after indexing)* easy installation. no database daemon, web server or exotic languagenecessary* an indexer which runs either as a thread inside the gui or as an external, cron'able program
