How
many times teachers and students would like to remember where they
have put an important quotation? How would you find it in a computer
full of files? Is a computer capable to look inside your files? Would
you find it in time for your latest paper/project etc…?
Today
we’re presenting Recoll,
which is a full text search QT based free,
open source program especially made for Unix-like and Linux but it is
also available for Windows and Mac systems, licensed under GPL. It
provides efficient desktop full text search from single-word to
arbitrarily complex boolean searches, basically it indexes the
documents data (along with their compressed versions) and huge number
of files then let you find quickly whatever you search for. Recoll
updates its index at designed intervals (for example through Cron
tasks) but if desired, the indexing task can run as a file-system
monitoring daemon for real-time index updates.
The
Recoll document conversion and text extraction architecture makes it
extremely easy to write new filters, and many document types are
supported. Indexes the contents of many document types: text, HTML,
E-Mail stores of all kinds, OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Office and
Office Open XML, AbiWord, KWord, Gaim, Lyx, Scribus, PDF,
WordPerfect, PostScript, RTF, TeX, DVI, DjVu, MP3 and other audio
file formats, JPEG and other image file formats.
The following web pages are available if
you wish to download;
or look for documentation;
or screenshots.
Enjoy!
