Recoll is a desktop search tool that provides efficient full text search in a friendly GUI, with minimum technical sophistication and few mandatory external dependencies. Developed by Jean-Francois Dockes
License: Open Source
regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't search the web, but your own files and documents. Using regain you can search through large portions of data (several gigabytes!) in split seconds. Developed by Til Schneider and Thomas Tesche
License: Open Source
Feature | Recoll | regain |
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File preview | ||
Full text search | ||
Indexed search | ||
File Searching | ||
Low memory usage | ||
Search-in-files | ||
Semantic Search | ||
Instant results | ||
Support for regular expressions | ||
Accurate | ||
Online Photo Editor | ||
Reads odt files | ||
Program Launchers | ||
Desktop Environment | ||
Bookmark History | ||
Real-Time Search | ||
Content Searching | ||
Portable | ||
File management | ||
Persistent Linux | ||
Search engine | ||
Outlook search | ||
Duplicate File Finder | ||
Find duplicated files | ||
Fuzzy Finder | ||
Morphological search | ||
Local Search | ||
Decentralized | ||
Peer-To-Peer | ||
Anonymity | ||
Privacy focused | ||
Context Menu extension | ||
Auto Indexing | ||
Support for 64 bit | ||
Support for Double-byte languages | ||
Support for Multiple threads |