recoll – Desktop search tool

Name         : recoll
Version      : 1.23.7
Release      : 2.fc28
Arch         : x86_64
Size         : 2.1 M
Source       : recoll-1.23.7-2.fc28.src.rpm
Repo         : fedora
Summary      : Desktop full text search tool with Qt GUI
URL          : http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
License      : GPLv2+
Description  : Recoll is a personal full text search package for Linux, FreeBSD and
             : other Unix systems. It is based on a very strong back end (Xapian), for
             : which it provides an easy to use, feature-rich, easy administration
             : interface.

Your own local search engine.

There are times when you would want to have a local search engine capable of indexing even pdf and doc files. So here is a solution.

You can use “Omega” and here are the instructions.

download omega from http:// xapian.org/download

yum install xapian libuuid-devel

And then make and install omega and for this you can follow the instructions.

Create index using command omindex
and then you can use quest or search.py to search or you can setup the cgi way so that you can use local browser to search.