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<title>Recoll text search finds your documents</title>
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<meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org">
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<meta name="Description" content="Recoll is a desktop text search application for Unix, Linux 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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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="styles/style.css">
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<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
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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="devel.html">Helping out</a></li>
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<li><a href="index.html.fr">En Français</a></li>
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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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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="content">
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<h1><a href="http://www.recoll.org/">Recoll</a> is
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a text search tool for Unix and Linux desktops.</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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any <a href="features.html#doctypes">document format</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>.
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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">1.19.8</a>
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(<a href="release-1.19.html">Release notes</a>,
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<a href="BUGS.html">known bugs</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.
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<a class="important" href="features.html">More details …</a></p>
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<p>If you have problems with Recoll, <a href="doc.html">
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documentation</a> and <a href="support.html">
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support</a> are available.</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>2013-06-18</dt> <dd>1.19.8 is released. This mainly
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changes the way we handle Hindi (nor more
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diacritics-stripping).</dd>
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<dt>2013-07-10</dt> <dd>The
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<a href="https://github.com/koniu/recoll-webui">
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recoll-webui Recoll browser access project</a>
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has been updated to be compatible with Recoll
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1.19 (1.18 compatibility is maintained), and add new
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functions permitted by the improvements in the Python module
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(previewing and downloading in addition to file:://
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urls).</dd>
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<dt>2013-06-07</dt><dd>Recoll 1.19.4 is out. It fixes a few
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relatively minor issues in 1.19.3. See the
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<a href="release-1.19.html#minor_releases">release notes</a>
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for a description of the changes.</dd>
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</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>2013-04-14</dt><dd>Release 1.18.2 fixes a few really minor
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<a href="BUGS.html#b_1_18_1">bugs in 1.18.1</a>. I
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will not package it.</dd>
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<dt>2012-12-14</dt><dd>The next version of Recoll indexing will be
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multithreaded, and much faster on most current
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processors. The conversion has been an interesting project
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with multiple stages, and I've taken
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<a href="idxthreads/threadingRecoll.html">a few notes</a>
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about the transformation.</dd>
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</dd>
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<dt>2012-11-05</dt><dd>Recoll 1.18.1 is out. It has optional
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character case and diacritics sensitivity, direct access to
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the hit page when opening PDF files, complex search history,
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and a host of other smaller improvements. See
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the <a href="release-1.18.html">release
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notes</a>.
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<span class="important">Those of you not using <b>evince</b>
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as a PDF/Postscript/DVI viewer may be surprised to see the
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recoll GUI try to use this viewer anyway.</span>This is because
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some of the new functions in 1.18 work better
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with <b>evince</b>, but you can override the choice by
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going to the GUI preferences, and removing
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application/pdf, application/postscript and
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application/dvi from the <tt>Exceptions</tt> list.
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</dd>
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<dt>2012-10-30</dt> <dd>Recoll has a brand new Firefox extension for
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indexing visited Web pages. This is very similar to the old
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Beagle plugin, but slightly better integrated (no-fuss
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installation), and with a new lease on life. See
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<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/recollfirefox/">
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Dave King's project page on sourceforge</a> and the
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<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/IndexWebHistory">
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page about Recoll (trivial) configuration</a>.</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>2012-09-21</dt><dd>An
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<a href="https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/wiki/ElinksWeb">easy
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way</a> to extend the "Web queue"
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Recoll web history indexing mechanism to other browsers than
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Firefox (Elinks in this case).
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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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<dt>2012-03-27</dt> <dd>Recoll gets a Ubuntu Unity Lens. If
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you are running
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an Ubuntu release where this makes sense, you can install
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the recoll-lens package from the
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<a href="https://launchpad.net/~recoll-backports/+archive/recoll-1.15-on">
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Recoll PPA</a>. The Lens uses the Recoll GUI as a proxy to
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extract and display embedded documents, which native utilities
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can't reach directly. And of course you still need to run
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the GUI (or the command line recollindex) to get the indexing
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going !</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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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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