Recoll documentation

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Recoll user manual

English, HTML, many pages, nicer format (needs javascript).
English, HTML, one page.
English, PDF.
Russian, HTML.
German, PDF. This is an automatic translation performed by deepl and supplied by a kind Recoll user.
Chinese, old and incomplete.
Italian, old and incomplete.

Other general documentation

FAQs and Howtos: useful tips for common issues and extensions.
The Unix man pages.

Windows-specific pages

Recoll on Windows
Recoll on Windows FAQ
Aspell dictionaries (spelling suggestions for languages other than English).

Article-type docs

Indexing PDF XMP metadata: a nice exemple of customizing a Recoll configuration and the PDF filter to use additional metadata, by Jeffrey Dick.
Index size and indexing performance data
Result list format samples.
Lessons learned while modifying Recoll indexing to be multithreaded.
Big process fork(2) performance issues.