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# looqs - Looks for files. And looks inside them
looqs creates a full text search for your files. It allows you to look at previews where your
search terms have been found.
# looqs - FTS for the Linux desktop with previews for search results
looqs creates a full text search index for your files. It allows you to look at previews where your
search terms have been found, as shown in the screenshots below.
Currently, this allows you search all indexed pdfs and take a look at the pages side by side in an instant, as shown in the screenshots.
## Screenshots
### List
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## Goals and principles
* **Find & Preview**. Instead of merely telling you where your search phrase has been found, it should also render the corresponding portion/pages of the documents and highlight the searched words.
* **No daemons**. As other solutions are prone to have annoying daemons running that eat system resources away, this solution should make do without daemons if possible.
* **No daemons**. As some other desktop search projects are prone to have annoying daemons running that eat system resources away, this solution should make do without daemons where possible.
* **Easy setup**. Similiarly, there should be no need for heavy-weight databases. Instead, this solution tries to squeeze out the most from simple approaches. In particular, it relies on sqlite.
* **GUI & CLI**. Provide CLI interfaces and GUI interfaces
* **Sandboxing**. As reading and rendering lots of formats naturally opens the door for security bugs, those tasks are offloaded to small, sandboxed sub-processes to mitigate the effect of exploited vulnerabilities.
## Supported platforms
Linux on amd64 is currently the main focus.
Linux (on amd64) is currently the main focus. Currently, I don't plan on supporting anything else and the sandboxing architecture does not make it likely. I suppose a version without sandboxing might be conceivable for other platforms, but I have no plans or resources to actively target anything but Linux at this point.
### Licence
GPLv3.
### Contributing
Fow now, github issues and pull-requests are preferred, but you can also just email
your patches or issues to : looqs at quitesimple.org
## Build
### Ubuntu 21.04
### Ubuntu 21.10/22.04
```
git submodule init
git submodule update
sudo apt install build-essential qtbase5-dev libpoppler-qt5-dev libuchardet-dev libquazip5-dev
qmake
make
```
## Documentation
Coming soon™
Please see [Usage.md](USAGE.md) for the user manual.
## Packages
Coming soon™