# Recoll documentation
recoll is a simple full-text search system for unix and linux based on the powerful and mature xapian engine
Author: Jean-Francois Dockes
Keywords: full text search, desktop search, unix, linux

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# Recoll user manual

- English, HTML, many pages
- English, HTML, one page
- 中文，HTML
- English, PDF
- Italian (rather old)

# Howtos on the Recoll Wiki

You will find a number of useful tips for common issues and extensions on the Recoll Wiki on bitbucket.org.

# Other documentation

- Indexing PDF XMP-metadata: a nice exemple of customizing a Recoll configuration and the PDF filter to use additional metadata, by Jeffrey Dick.
- Index size and indexing performance data.
- Result list format samples.
- Lessons learned while modifying Recoll indexing to be multithreaded.
- Faqs and Howtos are now kept in the Recoll Wiki on bitbucket.org.