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 qss creates a poor-man full-text search for your files using a
 sqlite database.
 
-You need the python "chardet" package, since it will try to convert the 
-encoding of the files in case initial utf-8 decoding fails.
-
-pdftext is needed to search in .pdf files..
-
 A simple gui (C++ with Qt5) for search  is found in gui/. 
 It shows preview pages of documents where your search keywords have 
 been found. This allows you to search all indexed pdfs and take a look