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. Periodic indexing
2.4.1. Starting indexing
2.4.2. Using cron to automate indexing
2.5. Real time indexing
3. Search
3.1. Simple search
3.2. The result list
3.2.1. The result list right-click menu
3.3. The preview window
3.4. Complex/advanced search
3.5. The term explorer tool
3.6. Multiple databases
3.7. Document history
3.8. Sorting search results
3.9. Search tips, shortcuts
3.10. Customizing the search interface
4. Installation
4.1. Installing a prebuilt copy
4.1.1. Installing through a package system
4.1.2. Installing a prebuilt Recoll
4.2. Supporting packages
4.3. Building from source
4.3.1. Prerequisites
4.3.2. Building
4.3.3. Installation
4.4. Configuration overview
4.4.1. Main configuration file
4.4.2. The mimemap file
4.4.3. The mimeconf file
4.4.4. The mimeview file