Recoll

            
            Personal full text search package

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

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.