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Recoll is a full text search application, which means that it finds your
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data by content rather than by external attributes (like the file name).
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You specify words (terms) which should or should not appear in the text
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you are looking for, and receive in return a list of matching documents,
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ordered so that the most relevant documents will appear first.
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You do not need to remember in what file or email message you stored a
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given piece of information. You just ask for related terms, and the tool
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will return a list of documents where these terms are prominent, in a
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similar way to Internet search engines.
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Full text search applications try to determine which documents are
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most relevant to the search terms you provide. Computer algorithms for
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determining relevance can be very complex, and in general are inferior
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to the power of the human mind to rapidly determine relevance. The
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quality of relevance guessing is probably the most important aspect
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when evaluating a search application. Recoll relies on the Xapian
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probabilistic information retrieval library to determine relevance.
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This package contains the indexer and command-line tool. The Qt-based
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graphical interface is in the "recoll-gui" package.
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