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<title>Recoll text search finds your documents</title>
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<meta name="Description" content="Recoll is a desktop text search application for Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X, based on the Xapian search engine library.">
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<meta name="Keywords" content="text search, pdf search, document search, full-text search, desktop search, open source,free">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-language" content="en">
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<meta name="robots" content="All,Index,Follow">
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="rightlinks">
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.recoll.org">Home</a></li>
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<li><a href="pics/index.html">Screenshots</a></li>
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<li><a href="download.html">Downloads</a></li>
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<li><a href="doc.html">Documentation</a></li>
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<li><a href="support.html">Support</a></li>
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<li><a href="devel.html">Helping out</a></li>
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<li><a href="index.html.fr">En Français</a></li>
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<li><a class="weak" href="../pages/lbc-hosting.html">lesbonscomptes</a>
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</ul>
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<p class="indexthumb">
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<a href="pics/index.html"><img width="100" alt=
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"Thumbnail of recoll main screen" src=
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"pics/recoll0-thumb.png"></a>
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</div>
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<div class="content">
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<h1><img align="center" src="pics/recoll64.png"/>
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<a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
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a desktop full-text search tool.</h1>
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<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> finds keywords
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inside documents as well as file names.</p>
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<ul>
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<li>It can search
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most <span class="important"><a href="features.html#doctypes">document
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formats</a></span>. <a href="features.html#doctypes">You may
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need external applications for text extraction</a>.</li>
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<li>It can reach any storage place: files,
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archive members, email attachments, transparently
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handling decompression.</li>
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<li>One click will open the document inside a native editor or
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display an even quicker text preview.</li>
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<li>The software is free, open source,
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and licensed under the GPL.</li>
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<li><a href="features.html">Detailed features</a> and
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application requirements for supported document types.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The current <span class="application">Recoll</span> version is
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<a href="download.html">1.21.6</a>
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(<a href="release-1.21.html">Release notes</a>,
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<a href="BUGS.html">known
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bugs</a>, <a href="release-history.html">Release history</a>).</p>
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<p><span class="application">Recoll</span> is based on the very
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strong <a href="http://www.xapian.org">Xapian</a> search
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engine library, for which it provides a powerful text
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extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, Qt graphical
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interface.</p>
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<p class="remark">Recoll will index an <b>MS-Word</b> document
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stored as an <b>attachment</b> to an <b>e-mail message</b> inside
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a <b>Thunderbird folder</b> archived in a <b>Zip file</b> (and
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more...). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and
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powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right
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page with two clicks. There is little that will remain
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hidden on your disk.</p>
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<p>Recoll has extensive <a href="doc.html">
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documentation</a>. If you run into a problem, or want to
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propose improvements, you are welcome to use
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the <a href="support.html">
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<span class="important">mailing list or problem
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tracker</span></a>.</p>
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<p><b><i>Recoll user ?</i></b> Maybe there are still a few useful
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search tricks that you don't know about. A quick look at
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the <a href="usermanual/RCL.SEARCH.html#RCL.SEARCH.GUI.TIPS">search
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tips</a> might prove useful ! Also the
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<a href="http://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/FaqsAndHowTos">
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Faqs and Howtos</a> on bitbucket.org, and some contributed
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<a href="custom.html">result list formats</a>.</p>
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<h2>News</h2>
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<div class="news">
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<dl>
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<dt>2016-05-11</dt><dd>Release 1.21.7 fixes an ennoying but
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benign GUI crash-on-exit bug reported on Fedora 23 (qt5).</dd>
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<dt>2016-04-21</dt><dd>I experimented with installing
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the <a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui">Recoll
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Web UI</a> with Apache, and found out
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that <a href="pages/recoll-webui-install-wsgi.html">this
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is really easy</a>, actually both easier to set up and
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more useful than running it standalone.</dd>
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<dt>2016-04-18</dt><dd>Found a <a href="BUGS.html#GUIADV">GUI
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crash bug</a> with a reasonably easy workaround.</dd>
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<dt>2016-04-14</dt><dd>Release 1.22.0 is now available from
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the download area. The binary packages should wait until
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enough brave souls have tested it. See
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the <a href="release-1.22.html">the release notes</a>.</dd>
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<dt>2016-04-07</dt><dd>Release 1.21.6 adds KDE5 compatibility
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for the KIO slave.</dd>
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<dt>2016-01-29</dt><dd>Release 1.21.5 is out. It fixes a
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relatively nasty bug affecting all previous 1.21 versions:
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the query language parser processed incorrectly multiple
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mime type or category specifications, with missing results
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as a consequence </dd>
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<dt>2016-01-12</dt><dd>It seems that we currently have a
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relatively frequent problem resulting in damaged indexes. If
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you are experimenting heavy reindexing (incremental indexing
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takes longer than it should), or missing search results,
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please take a look at the top of
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the <a href="BUGS.html">known bugs page</a></dd>
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<dt>2015-11-09</dt>
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<dd><a href="pics/windows-recoll.html">
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<img align="left" width="100" alt="Recoll on MS-Windows"
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src="pics/windows-recoll-thumb.png"></a>
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<span class="important">Recoll for
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MS-Windows</span>. Still a few things missing (like
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real-time monitoring), but it does work, and it has a proper
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installer, so you can easily get rid of it if you don't like
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it. <a href="pages/recoll-windows.html">Have a look.</a>.
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This is an almost-native port, based on Qt and the Windows
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API, no need for Cygwin. Thanks to Christian Motz for
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helping with the filter interface (and the rest). I would
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love some feedback!<br clear="all">
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</dd>
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<dt>2015-10-17</dt>
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<dd>A bug in the verification of configuration file path variables
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generates spurious warnings from recollindex when the
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skippedPaths variable contains elements with wildcards. This
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has no consequence except for the spurious error
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message.</dd>
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<dt>2015-10-01</dt>
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<dd>Release 1.21.2 is out, and replaces 1.20 as production
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release. </dd>
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<dt>2015-06-30</dt>
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<dd>A new rclpdf filter, with improved compatibility with
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recent poppler pdftotext
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versions. See <a href="filters/filters.html">rclpdf
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filter</a>.</dd>
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<dt>2015-06-16</dt>
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<dd>Recoll 1.21.0 is out. This has a new query parser and
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should be considered an instable release, please do not
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package it (1.20.6 is the one you want for stability). It
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also <a href="idxthreads/forkingRecoll.html">changes the way
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filters are executed</a> for better performance. See the
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<a href="release-1.21.html">release notes</a> for more
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detail about the few other changes.</dd>
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<dt>2015-04-25</dt>
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<dd>Recoll 1.20.6 is out, with mostly small fixes to
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compressed file handling, which may make a big difference in
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some cases. See the <a href="release-1.20.html">release
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notes</a>. Of course it also incorportates the Qt 5
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compatibility from 1.20.5 (Qt
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5.3.2 ok, 5.2 does not work).</dd>
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<dt>2015-03-30</dt>
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<dd>Recoll 1.20.4 released. This fixes real time indexing of
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the web history (when using the Firefox plugin).</dd>
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<dt>2014-12-27</dt>
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<dd><a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/">
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Unrtf 21.8</a> has been released. This fixes many issues
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in unrtf, some with possible security implications. You
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really want to use this version.</dd>
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<dt>2014-12-18</dt> <dd>Recoll 1.20.1 is out and replaces 1.19
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as the main version. I have been using 1.20 for months
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(along with a number of fearless builders-from-source), and
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it's as stable as 1.19, with nice
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small <a href="release-1.20.html">new features</a>. Packages
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will follow shortly. It is recommended (but not strictly
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required, see the notes) to run an index reset when
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upgrading.</dd>
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<dt>2014-12-10</dt> <dd>The aspell command used for
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orthographic suggestions is broken on Debian Jessie (because
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of an aspell packaging issue), and this will not be fixed
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for the Debian release. See the <a href="BUGS.html#aspelljessie">
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simple workaround here</a>.</dd>
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<dt>2014-11-09</dt> <dd>If you are still running anything
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older than 1.19.14p2, <span class="important">YOU SHOULD
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UPGRADE</span>. In
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particular, <a href="release-1.19.html#rodb">this index
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corruption issue</a> leading to repeated reindexing of
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documents, and possibly query problems too, can be pretty
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ennoying.<br/>
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GOTO <a href="download.html">download</a> and
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install 1.19.14p2 or 1.20. <em>Reset your index after
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upgrading (rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb)</em>.</dd>
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<dt>2014-07-28</dt> <dd>A nice new application to complement
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Recoll: <a href="https://github.com/pidlug/recollfs">recollfs</a>
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implements a Fuse filesystem where Recoll queries are
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represented as directories, the contents of which are links
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to the result documents.</dd>
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<dt>2014-07-16</dt> <dd>Recoll version 1.19.14p2 fixes more
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resource management issues in the Python module (only the
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Python package needs upgrading for this), and the processing
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of Bengali characters (no more diacritics stripping).</dd>
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<dt>2014-06-24</dt> <dd><a href="filters/filters.html#soff1">An
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updated filter</a> for Open/LibreOffice documents. The
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previous version merged words which were tab-separated in
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the input.</dd>
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<dt>2014-06-17</dt> <dd>The source tarball for version 1.20.0
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has been released. This version has
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a <a href="release-1.20.html">number of improvements</a> over
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1.19, but also some incompatibilities. The first minor
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releases for 1.20 may contain some functional changes in
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addition to bug fixes, so they may be slightly less stable
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than 1.19, and 1.19 packages remain the "safe Recoll" for
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now. Still, if you build from source, there are a few nice
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things in 1.20...</dd>
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<dt>2014-06-07</dt> <dd>Version 1.19.14 is out and fixes a
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handful of minor-to-ennoying indexing glitches (see the
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<a href="release-1.19.html">Release notes</a>).</dd>
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<dt>2014-05-06</dt> <dd>Version 1.19.13 is out and hopefully
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fixes the remaining (rare) crashes of multithreaded
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indexing.</dd>
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<dt>2014-04-03</dt> <dd>I have separated the code for the
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<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/unity-scope-recoll">Recoll
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Unity Scope</a> from the main body of code, in hope that it may
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interest someone to work on it. It's Python and simple,
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mostly depending on the Unity API. The Ubuntu Unity API is
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apparently going to change *again* for the next version, and
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I think I've seen enough of it.</dd>
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<dt>2014-04-02</dt> <dd>1.19.12 is out. It's mostly identical
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to 1.19.11 apart from a new parameter to change the max size
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of stored attributes. No need to update in general.</dd>
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<dt>2014-02-27</dt> <dd>I hear from time to time about
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recollindex crashes. These appear to be quite rare, but they
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do happen, and I think that they are linked to a yet unfound
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bug in multithread indexing. If you experience such crashes or
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stalls, you can disable multithreading by adding the following
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to your recoll.conf:
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<pre><tt>thrQSizes = -1 -1 -1</tt></pre>
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</dd>
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<dt>2014-02-27</dt><dd>While working on a
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<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/MuttAndRecoll">
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Recoll-Mutt interface</a> I discovered incidentally that
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the <a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui">Recoll
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Webui Web interface</a> works quite well with the
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<a href="http://links.twibright.com/">links</a> web browser
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inside a terminal window. This appears to be an interesting
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solution for people looking for a search interface usable in
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a non-GUI environment.</dd>
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<dt>2013-11-19</dt> <dd>A <a href="filters/filters.html">new
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filter</a> for PowerPoint files. The previous one was
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based on the ancient <b>catppt</b> from the <b>catdoc</b>
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utilities and usually extracted nothing from more recent
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PowerPoint files (this is about .ppt: .pptx is handled by a native
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Recoll filter).</dd>
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<dt>2013-05-18</dt><dd>Sometimes things
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<a href="http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/happysearch.html">
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just work</a>...</dd>
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<dt>2013-04-30</dt><dd>Thanks to some of its users, Recoll now
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has filters to
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rcollnotesfiltr/">
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index and retrieve Lotus Notes messages</a>
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(some
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<a href="http://richardappleby.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/you-dont-have-to-know-the-answer-to-everything-just-how-to-find-it/">
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implementation notes from an early user</a>), and there is
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also now a
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<a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui/">
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Web browser interface</a> for querying your Recoll
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indexes.</dd>
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<dt>2012-10-25</dt> <dd>A problem with a simple workaround has caused
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several reported <span class="important">recollindex
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crashes</span> recently (for 1.17). If you store and index
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Mozilla/Thunderbird email out of the standard location
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(~/.thunderbird), you should add the following at the end of
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your configuration file (e.g.:
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~/.recoll/recoll.conf): <pre><tt>
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[/path/to/my/mozilla/mail]
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mhmboxquirks = tbird
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</tt></pre> Adjust the path to your local value of course...
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Without this hint, recollindex has trouble finding the
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message delimiters inside the folder files, and will
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possibly use all the computer's memory and crash. Apart from
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crashes, which only occur for very big folders, this also
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causes incorrect mail indexing.
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</dd>
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<dt>2012-09-11</dt> <dd>A new user-contributed script for those who use
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real-time indexing on laptops: stop or start indexing
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according to AC power status. See the details on
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the <a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexOnAc.wiki">
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Wiki</a>. </dd>
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<dt>2012-04-07</dt><dd>We now have a Chinese user manual:
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Recoll现在有中文手册咯：
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<a href="http://stupidbeauty.com/Blog/2012/03/recoll%E7%94%A8%E6%88%B6%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8A%E7%BF%BB%E8%AD%AF%EF%BC%8Crecoll-user-manual-2/">
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Recoll中文手册，HTML</a></dd>
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</dl>
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</div>
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<h2>Thanks</h2>
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<p>Recoll borrows a lot of code
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from other packages, and welcomes code and ideas from
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contributors, see some of the
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<a class="important" href="credits.html">Credits</a>.</p>
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<h2>On the side</h2>
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<div class="news">
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<blockquote>
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<p>We rent <a href="http://www.metairie-enbor.com/index.html.en">
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a big country house</a> in the Aude area, in the south of
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France (<a href="http://www.metairie-enbor.com/acces.html.en">see
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map on the site</a>). If you are
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looking for a wonderful country place with a pool to
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spend holidays with a big bunch of family and/or
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friends in a nice historical but very quiet area, this may be it.</p>
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</blockquote>
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</div>
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