Recoll user manual

Jean-Francois Dockes

This document introduces full text search notions and describes the installation and use of the Recoll application.


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Giving it a try
1.2. Full text search
1.3. Recoll overview
2. Indexing
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Index storage
2.2.1. Security aspects
2.3. The indexing configuration
2.4. Starting indexing
2.5. Using cron to automate indexing
3. Search
3.1. Simple search
3.2. Complex/advanced search
3.3. Multiple databases
3.4. Document history
3.5. Result list sorting
3.6. Additional result list functionality
3.7. Search tips, shortcuts
3.8. Customising the search interface
4. Installation
4.1. Building from source
4.1.1. Prerequisites
4.1.2. Building
4.1.3. Installation
4.2. Installing a prebuilt copy
4.2.1. Installing through a package system
4.2.2. Installing a prebuilt Recoll
4.3. Packages needed for external file types
4.4. Configuration overview
4.4.1. Main configuration file
4.4.2. The mimemap file
4.4.3. The mimeconf file