#Recoll

Liane M. Dubowylmd@social.heise.de
2026-01-06

@WorziArmin Ein Kollege hatte schon mal Tools fürs #Dokumentenmanagement vorgestellt. Aber ich fürchte: Das erfordert noch mehr Disziplin. #OCRmyPDF kann das Problem nicht lösen, das scannt ja nur ein und macht die Texterkennung. Für alle, die keine Lust haben zu sortieren, empfehle ich tatsächlich #Recoll. Festplatte indizieren, dann findet das fast alles. Aber mich würde das Chaos auf der Festplatte irre machen.

Evcimenkalemzahirevliyasi
2026-01-03

Bu arada yeri gelmişken u yapanlardan Allah razı olsun. Hayat kurtarıcı.

2025-12-22

Datei und Volltext-Suche ist ja immer so ein Ding. Unter Windows haben wir für Netzlaufwerke #DocFetcher (docfetcher.sourceforge.io/de/) genommen. Aber es hat so Stabilitätsprobleme.

Das #Recoll (recoll.org) sieht auch interessant aus. Er ist aber noch beim Indizieren lokal gerade.

Bisher hatte ich #FSearch als #Everything-Alternative unter Linux. Aber Volltext-Index ist natürlich auch nett

Jetzt seh ich gerade auch noch #SearchMonkey (sourceforge.net/projects/searc)...

Corey Snipes 🕯️❄️coreysnipes@hachyderm.io
2025-12-09

December 9 #FreeSoftwareAdvent

Recoll: Full-text search for your local files

#recoll is a local file indexing and search powertool. It provides plenty of options for configuration (e.g., includes, excludes, filters, update and rebuild index) and a nice snappy interface.

My local file arrangement is reasonably organized, but I often find myself needing to search for something based on content.

In their words: "Recoll will index an MS-Word document stored as an attachment to an e-mail message inside a Thunderbird folder archived in a Zip file (and more…​). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right page with two clicks. There is little that will remain hidden on your disk."

recoll.org

2025-11-13

🗂️ My computer stores everything I work with: drafts, notes, datasets, scripts, models, simulations results, old archives — and, of course, a ridiculous amount of literature. 😅

Recently I discovered something that felt like unlocking a hidden level: local full-text search.

I’d used basic search tools before, but then I tried Recoll — an open-source search engine for UNIX-like systems — and it completely changed how I navigate my research files.

It honestly feels like I found a new kind of “computer game,” and I’ll probably keep playing with it for months. 🤣

#ResearchWorkflow #IndependentResearch #DataManagement #OpenSource #KnowledgeOrganization #UNIX #DigitalResearch #ResearchTools #Recoll #KnowledgeManagement #Linux #FOSS

Tim Schlotfeldt ⚓🏳️‍🌈ts-new@hub.tschlotfeldt.de
2025-10-28
@Martin Seeger Ah, Benamung ist echt ein Thema. Und dann auch wieder nicht. Mein Benamungsschema für Dateien ist Datum-Typ-Ersteller.

Ich benutze allerdings kein #paperless sondern mache das händisch mit #ocrmypdf. Die Dateien sortiere ich in eine Verzeichnisstruktur. Und dank OCR findet bei mir #Recoll dann alles wieder. @Bastian
DD3AH 📡📶 🏳️‍🌈🌐 :DARC: DD3AH@social.darc.de
2025-08-22

Die Tool-Chain hat nun Zuwachs bekommen:

#Recoll mit den Paketen #untex und #pdftotext sorgt nun dafür, dass in allen Dokumenten effizient gesucht werden kann.

Peter B.p3ter
2025-08-21
2025-07-08

Ainda sobre a #TerSoftware de hoje, sabem qual outro programa eu indicaria para quem lida com documentos e precisa de uma forcinha no gerenciamento? O #Recoll.

O Recoll é um poderoso indexador baseado na biblioteca Xapian. A interface, feita com o toolkit Qt, é relativamente fácil de usar, mas fica ainda melhor se a busca utilizar um pouco da sintaxe de busca, facilitando pesquisas por tipo MIME ou pelo nome do diretório no qual os arquivos foram armazenados.

Para arquivos PDF, o Recoll oferece preview em texto simples, snippets para contextualizar os resultados da busca e a possibilidade de abrir o visualizador já na página correta.

O binário `recollq` (ou `recoll -t`) pode ser usado via linha de comando, o que amplia o leque de possibilidades com scripts.

O Recoll me ajuda bastante quando preciso pesquisar minha biblioteca de teses, dissertações e artigos. Facilita muito para trabalhos acadêmicos.

Bharath M. Palavallibmp@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-02-08

Why hadn't I used #recoll in so many years! It is such a wonderful package, full text search that works like a charm and is built solidly. As a bonus there is an #emacs package for it too.

🇬🇱 KielKontrovers Blogkielkontrovers@norden.social
2025-01-09

#Recoll currently too often takes up too much ressources. I used it many years now. But if it uses 120% CPU for 1-2 hours its not okay any more. Search for an alternative

#LinuxDesktopSearch

2024-02-29

trying out recoll since I saw it in a hackaday article
it seems pretty cool so far but i have a lot of data to index so it's been several days and it's not done yet lol
#recoll

2023-11-18

I am a rulebook hoarder. Whenever I take a closer look at a game downloading the rulebook is the first thing I do. I have over 2500 boardgame related pdf files. I access them using pdf-tools in , index them using and I use a small hack to make M-x pdfgrep search using the recoll index. I use the tool to OCR the ones that didn't come with embedded text.

2023-09-03

I repurposed one of his old laptops (that overheats, sadly) as frontend, making room for an Ubuntu partition.
I installed the trusty #recoll to index text documents and emails.
For images, I ended up using #KPhotoAlbum, that has very flexible tagging possibilities, making it useful on more than photo albums. Chronological view and image stacking are also great.
I used #Geeqie, then more recently #Czkawka for finding image #duplicates, that I then stacked manually in KPhotoAlbum.

Yann Büchau :nixos:nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2023-03-13

Damn, #Recoll can be a real life-saver if you're looking for a document in your pile of (hidden) folders/emails/attachments/etc. It indexes pretty much everything and helps dig up stuff. Neat!

lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/page

Just like I am a fan of desktop search engines like #Recoll (bringing the power of something like Google to my own personal data), I am excited about the potential of the application of LLMs like #ChatGPT *[Footnote1] to my own library of articles, books and notes.

"Show me who has written about the rise of ecofascism in 1930s in Germany, and summarize my notes on it."

Something like this: org-roam.discourse.group/t/a-d

Johannes Brakensieklazarus@fosstodon.org
2023-01-01

There you go: codeberg.org/Letterus/synapse- @Codeberg

#Debian and #Ubuntu packages available @opensuse build service. I'm quite happy I now could install this package on my office machine and I'm finding my documents immediately, getting them presented in a pretty way! #Recoll #Synapse #Zeitgeist #FullText #Search

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