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# looqs - Full-text search with previews for your files
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looqs is a tool that creates a full-text search index for your files. It allows you to look at previews where your
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search terms have been found, as shown in the screenshots below.
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## Screenshots
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The screenshots in this section may occasionally be slightly outdated, but they are usually recent enough to get an overall impression of the current state of the GUI.
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### Preview
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looqs allow you to look inside files. It marks what you have searched for.
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### Results list
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#### Classic results list
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Just enter what you want to find, it will search paths and file content.
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#### Searching with filters
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You can be more specific to get what you want with filters
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**Filters (long form)**
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**Filters (short form)**
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There is no need to write the long form of filters. There are also booleans available
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## Current status
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Last version: 2022-06-07, v0.2
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Please see [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) for a human readable list of changes.
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## Goals and principles
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* **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.
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* **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.
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* **Easy setup**. Similarly, there should be no need for heavy-weight databases. Instead, looqs tries to squeeze out the most from simple approaches. In particular, it relies on sqlite.
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* **GUI & CLI**. Provide CLI interfaces and GUI interfaces
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* **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.
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## Features
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- GUI, CLI interface
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- Indexing of file path and some metadata.
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- Indexing of file file content for FTS search. Currently: .pdf, odt, docx, plaintext.
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- Preview of file formats: Currently: .pdf, plaintext
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- Highlight searched terms.
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- Quickly open PDF viewer or text editor at location of preview
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- Search filters
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## Supported platforms
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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.
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### Licence
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GPLv3.
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### Contributing
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Please see the [Contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) file.
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## Documentation
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Please see [USAGE.md](USAGE.md) for the user manual. There is also [HACKING.md](HACKING.md) with more technical information.
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## Build
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### Ubuntu 21.10/22.04
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To build on Ubuntu and Debian, clone the repo and then run:
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```
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git submodule init
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git submodule update
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sudo apt install build-essential qtbase5-dev libpoppler-qt5-dev libuchardet-dev libquazip5-dev
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qmake
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make
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```
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The GUI is located in `gui/looqs-gui`, the binary for the CLI is in `cli/looqs`
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## Packages
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At this point, looqs is not in any official distro package repo, but I maintain some packages.
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### Ubuntu 21.10/22.04
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Latest release can be installed using apt from the repo.
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```
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# First, obtain key, assume it's trusted.
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wget -O- https://repo.quitesimple.org/repo.quitesimple.org.asc | gpg --dearmor > repo.quitesimple.org-keyring.gpg
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cat repo.quitesimple.org-keyring.gpg | sudo tee -a /usr/share/keyrings/repo.quitesimple.org.gpg > /dev/null
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echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/repo.quitesimple.org.gpg] https://repo.quitesimple.org/debian/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/quitesimple.list
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install looqs
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```
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### Other distros
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I'll probably add a package for voidlinux at some point and maybe will provide a Gentoo ebuild. However, I would appreciate help for others distros. If you create a package, let me know!
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As for distro-agnostic packages, I will also take a look into appimage / flatpak etc. and/or maybe just provide a self-contained archive.
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