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Recoll is a text search tool for Unix and Linux desktops

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What tools can I use for PDF indexing?

In our working group we used Recoll on a Ubuntu PC to index all the PDF. For a while we moved everything to a Redhat server. Is there a Recoll alternative which doesn't requires a GUI adn support searching through a web interface?
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How can I get the recoll package to index markdown (.md) files?

From what I understand markdown is pretty similar to text and html, which are all indexed by the recoll search engine. However my markdown files with extension .md are not being indexed. I have checked the filters and I am not sure which one applies…
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Find files with specific extension with recoll

How to make recoll program to show files with specific extension (for example, *.cpp, *.txt, etc)?
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Recover text files and directory structure from the database created by Recoll?

A while ago, I ran Recoll which created a database on a partition, so that I could quickly search among all the text information in the contents of all files (text file, pdf, djvu, html, etc) in that partition. Now the partition, for which the…
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Phrase search in recoll

I would like to know whether I could avoid Recoll searching uses of any of the words in a term and only search the exact term. For example I'm trying to search for register indirect and it gives searches of register,indirect and register indirect as…
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Using relative paths in recoll

I am using recoll to index my files locally and so far it works really well. However, I'd like to have the paths be relative to the recoll.conf or recoll index directory so that I can move the files around as I see fit. Is this possible?
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Find out when the recoll index was last updated

Is there a way to find out, when a recoll-index was last updated?
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Using recollindex update for backup files

I was starting with inotify to monitor changes in my directories and launch a backup script using rclone. So I thought that, taking advantage of the fact that I'm using Recoll in my debian, I could use the changes that Recoll detected to launch…
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How do I get Recoll to open a parent directory using Thunar instead of Dolphin?

When I right click on a search result and choose "Open Parent document/folder", the folder opens in Dolphin. I would prefer to use Thunar, as I run XFCE on Ubuntu 18.04.
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Recoll fails to index python files with py filename suffix

I use recoll 1.26.3 (french version) xapian 1.4.14 with mint 20.04 My recoll doesn't index files with py as filename suffix. I have no "missing helper" I have no problem indexing .odt, .rpg, .pdf, .txt and similar filetypes. In "index mime type"…
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How to install recoll dependencies "djvutxt" and "python3:pylzma"?

I installed recoll on my Kubuntu 20.04. Now it says that external apps and commands are missing that are required for the indexing are missing, specifically: djvutxt (image/vnd.djvu) python3:pylzma (application/x-7z-compressed) but I have no idea…
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Recoll: Removing directories from Xapian db after indexing

Directories can be excluded from Recoll indexing with the parameter skippedPaths in recoll.conf. Does this remove the skipped directory data from Xapian db if the directory was indexed earlier? If it doesn't, how can I remove the directory data…
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