Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool

Re:Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool by Tomte on Friday October 22, 2021 @03:46AM (#28954614)

I wouldn't mind paying a few bucks for the Windows version, but it is unclear to me if the Windows version can index PDFs.

It seems to depend on pdftotext on Linux. Can I get that for Windows? If so, is an executable somewhere in my path enough?

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Re:Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool by flyingpant on Monday October 25, 2021 @02:08AM (#28984893)

Yes, it can, I'm using it personally and can confirm that the PDF indexing works without you having to install anything else yourself, it seems like every binary needed for it to run is bundled together with the main app.

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Re:Recoll: A desktop full-text search tool by mattowen_uk on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:15AM (#28954778)

PanDoc is available for Windows, which can also extract text from PDF files. Not sure if Recoll supports it though.

However if you want to OCR a PDF which contains image based 'pages' then you'll need something like Tesseract OCR.

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