Package: recoll (1.39.0-1)

Personal full text search package

This package is a personal full text search package is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

Features:

 * Qt-based GUI.
 * 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, 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
   UTF-8.
 * Stemming performed at query time (can switch stemming language after
   indexing).
 * Easy installation. No database daemon, web server or exotic language
   necessary.
 * An indexer which runs either as a thread inside the GUI or as an external,
   cron'able program.

This metapackage installs recoll GUI and commandline tools.

Tags: Implemented in: C++, User Interface: Graphical User Interface, interface::x11, role::program, Scope: Application, Interface Toolkit: Qt, Purpose: use::searching, works-with-format::html, Supports Format: works-with-format::pdf, works-with-format::plaintext, works-with-format::postscript, works-with::text, X Window System: Application

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