Recoll
This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.
Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names. It can search most document formats. It can reach any storage place: files, archive members, email attachments, transparently handling decompression. One click will open the document inside a native editor or display an even quicker text preview.
Avaliable through repositories Features:
- Qt-based GUI
- Will run on most Unix-based systems
- Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree.
- 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, ppt (catdoc), 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. Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
- 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
