Recoll

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Output—per 1M tokens

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About

Recoll is ranked #2 of 59 in desktop search software on Inferse. It runs on Android, API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan.

Compared on desktop search software

Free plan: Yesrecoll.org
Supported platforms: web, Windows, macOS, Linuxrecoll.org
Index locations: local filesystem, removable volumes, shared or otherwise computer-accessible storagerecoll.org
Content search: Yesrecoll.org
Email search: Yesrecoll.org
OCR search: Yesrecoll.org

Facts

Purpose: Recoll is desktop full-text search software that finds documents by their contents and file names.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Search features: Search supports Boolean queries, phrases, proximity, wildcards, and filters by file type and directory tree.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
File coverage: Recoll indexes many common document types and compressed files, including email attachments inside nested archives.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Indexing: The indexer can run periodically as a batch job or continuously for real-time indexing.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Interfaces: Interfaces include a Qt desktop GUI, web browser, command line, GNOME Shell search provider, KDE KIO, and KRunner.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Web access: The Recoll Web UI lets users query a Recoll index from a web browser.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Programming interface: A Python 3 extension can query or update the index, and the Web UI and Joplin notes indexer are built on it.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
PDF and OCR: Recoll can index PDF attachments and annotations, extract custom XMP metadata, and perform OCR on image-only PDFs using Tesseract or ABBYY FineReader.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Language support: Recoll supports multiple languages and character sets using Unicode UTF-8, and stemming language can be selected at query time.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Local privacy: The Windows page states Recoll does not connect to external locations and that user data stays on the computer.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Download integrity: The downloads page says all download files are signed with GPG and checksummed.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Platform limitation: The Windows port lacks some features, including multithreaded execution.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Support: Users can report problems through the issue tracker, mailing list, or direct email.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026
Format dependencies: On Linux and macOS, some file formats require external applications or libraries for text extraction.recoll.org · 30 Sept 2026