Recoll for Windows was built on Windows 10, and tested on Windows 7 and 10. It does not work on Windows XP.
I had multiple reports that it works in Windows 11, but I did not test myself as I can’t get Win11 to run in a VM.
The current download version is 1.41.0 (2024-12-11).
I request a small fee for downloading and using the Windows binary version. I don’t use it myself, so it makes it worth my while (building the thing and its dependencies on Windows is no piece of cake).
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If the paiement is a problem for you for any reason, please send me an email, no need for justification, I’ll send the download link: jfd@recoll.org.
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If you downloaded an older version, feel free to reuse the download link (which you got from the Paypal page) to get the new version. If the link does not work any more, please contact me.
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The Recoll source code is free and licensed under the GPL. As a regular user, and in a nutshell, you have the right to do what you want with the program (use one or multiple copies). If you intend to redistribute Recoll to other people, this is possible too, but you need to take a better look.
The Recoll Windows installation is self-contained, and the list of supporting packages described in for Linux does not apply: everything you need is included in the download.
Aspell dictionaries: The data for English spell suggestions is included in the download. You can find other languages here.
Privacy: Recoll does not connect to any external location, not even to check for a newer version. Your data remains on your computer.
When the payment is done, click the 'back to merchant site' link from the PayPal site. If this does not work, or if you have a comment about the process, please contact me: jfd@recoll.org
Support
Please use the Recoll issues tracker for reporting problems, or contact me by email: jfd@recoll.org
Documentation
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There is a small Recoll on MS-Windows FAQ.
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Have a look at the Recoll manual !
GPL compliance
All the source code used to build the Recoll Windows version is available either from this web site or from the Recoll source code repository. Some of the Recoll source components are actually under more permissive licenses which would not require the availability of the source. The following list tries to be exhaustive and includes all components anyway.
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Note
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any omission here is unintentional and will be corrected as soon as reported. |
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Main Recoll code: the source used to build the Windows binary is usually slightly different from the main Recoll tar file releases. The Windows binary setup file name includes a git hash which you can use to retrieve the exact source code from the recoll git repository
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Xapian local source The Xapian source is patched to work with non-ASCII paths on Windows. The patch can be found in a git repository on framagit
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ExifTool local source. This is used to build the rclimg.exe command, using Perl PAR-Packer.
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unrtf. local source
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antiword. Recoll uses a slightly modified version of this old project. git source
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poppler. The binaries come from https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/poppler/files. local source
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libpff: for processing Outlook files (.pst, .ost). libpff has been modified so that pffexport can stream data to stdout: source repository
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wpd2html. The source for librevenge was slightly modified to not depend on Boost. source repository
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Python: the installation includes an unmodified copy of the Python 3.12 embeddable Windows installation, with some additional extension modules preinstalled:
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chm handler: This includes a modified version of the pychm Python extension and of relevant libchm files. local source
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The epub filter uses the pyepub Python extension. local source
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py7zr. Unmodified Python extension. local source
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lxml. Unmodified Python extension. BSD License. See Pypi
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pyhwp. local source