Recoll Full Text Search Plugin

Created by Stanislav Kazmin (April 2013)

Modified by idealist1508 (Aug 2016)

This Plugin uses Recoll as a backend program to do a full text search inside the whole library and then display the matches in calibre.

It is build very simple and has only a few self explaining features.

Install

Steps to get this plugin working:

1. install thins plugin as a usual on in calibre
2. install recoll on you system
3. copy the directory "recollFullTextSearchPlugin" from the zip file to the calibre config plugins directory (usually on unix systems: $HOME/.config/calibre/plugins, on windows %appdata%\calibre\plugins)
4. When you start calibre, a new icon for the plugin can be seen in the panel
5. before use the the plugin for the first time, make sure the paths for the plugin are set right (check out plugins preferences for do so)
6. Make create a database for recoll using the button in the plugin (can take a lot of time for the first time)
7. Thats it

Changlog since 1.0.0

1.0.3

• Update to work with python3

  1.0.2

• Works on windows
• custom column is not necessary
• only unique books are shown
• Maximum number of Books is limited to 400 due to maximum recursion depth exceeded in the search interface

1.0.1

• changed search window to have a list of last searches
• new about window
• new message when updating the recoll library