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diff --git a/deskutils/recoll/pkg-descr b/deskutils/recoll/pkg-descr index 1aa20b03f798..ecc4f749ede5 100644 --- a/deskutils/recoll/pkg-descr +++ b/deskutils/recoll/pkg-descr @@ -1,24 +1,19 @@ -Recoll is a personal full text search package with a QT graphical -interface. It is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it -provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface. +Recoll is a personal full text search package. It is based on a very +strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and +feature-rich interface. Features: * Free, GPL license. - * QT-based GUI. - * Supports the following document types (and their compressed versions): - - Natively: text, html, OpenOffice files, maildir and mailbox - (Mozilla and Thunderbird mail ok) with attachments, gaim 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. - * 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. + * Easy installation, few dependancies. No database daemon, web server, + desktop environment or exotic language necessary. + * Will run on most Unix-based systems + * Qt 4 GUI, plus command line. + * Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments. + Transparently handles decompression (gzip, bzip2). + * Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, + wildcards, filter on file types and directory tree. + * Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals. + * Extensive documentation, with a complete user manual and manual pages + for each command. WWW: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ |