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Pinot Pinot
Personal search and metasearch for the Free Desktop

About

Pinot is :

  • a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes.
  • a GTK-based user interface that enables to query the index built by the service and your favourite Web engines, and display and analyze the results.

Features

  • advanced queries (probabilistic search, boolean filters, wildcards, ranges on date, time and size).
  • language detection.
  • insensitive to diacritics (accents).
  • Chinese, Japanese and Korean support.
  • searching while indexing.
  • documents browsing.
  • editing of metadata.
  • documents labeling.
  • stored queries.
  • results ranking history.
  • results lists export.
  • dynamic document summaries.
  • only crawl and index the directories you choose.
  • D-Bus interface for easy integration with other applications, eg Deskbar Applet, Catfish.
  • no dependency on GNOME or KDE.
  • support for common file types.
  • search your desktop and the Web.
  • query remote indexes.
  • laptop friendly.
All code is covered by the GNU GPL and LGPL.
Feel free to join the pinot-discuss mailing list or contact the author.

Latest version

The latest version is v0.95, released on November 14th 2009.
This project is hosted by
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