http://reconvillage.org/total-recoll-conducting-investigations-without-missing-a-thing/

1. Total Recoll
Dakota Nelson

2. Brief spoiler

3. tl;dr
Jean-Francois Dockes (medoc or medoc92)
made a thing
I think it’s awesome
It helps you search through stuff
Let’s learn about it

4. “We are buried beneath the weight of
information, which is being confused with
knowledge; quantity is being confused with
abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.”
- Tom Waits

7. 882 MB
(of PDFs)

9. “Recoll is a desktop full-text search tool.”

10. … which is sort of an understatement

11. 1. Install and open Recoll

12. 1. Install and open Recoll
2. Wow that’s a lot of buttons

13. 1. Install and open Recoll
2. Wow that’s a lot of buttons
3. Look at the user manual
(https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/
usermanual.html)

14. 1. Install and open Recoll
2. Wow that’s a lot of buttons
3. Look at the user manual
(https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/
usermanual.html)
4. It’s huge, ignore it

15. 1. Install and open Recoll
2. Wow that’s a lot of buttons
3. Look at the user manual
(https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/
usermanual.html)
4. It’s huge, ignore it
5. Recoll is complicated, read it after all

16. That’s why I’m here!
Need an index
Preferences > Index Configuration > Top Directories “+” > Folder of PDFs

17. That’s why I’m here!
Need an index
Preferences > Index Configuration > Top Directories “+” > Folder of PDFs

18. https://strikersecurity.com/source-boston-201
Demo Time

19. AND THAT’S NOT ALL

21. Set up:
Install Firefox plugin > saves to ~/.recollweb/ToIndex/,
then:
Preferences > Index Configuration > Top Directories “+” > that dir
Preferences > Index Configuration > Web History (tab) > check box, put that
dir in, set cache size

22. Actually save pages:
or

23. Finally, re-index:

24. Things which are neat:
- Full text search
- Copy saved locally
- You do nothing

25. Things which are neat:
- Full text search
- Copy saved locally
- You do nothing

26. STILL NOT ALL

27. It eats anything
text
html
maildir, mh, and mailbox
gaim and purple log files
Scribus
Man pages
Dia diagrams
Excel and Powerpoint
Tar
Zip
Konqueror webarchive
Mimehtml web archive
Abiword
Fb2 ebooks
Kword
Microsoft Office Open XML
OpenOffice
SVG
Gnumeric
Okular annotations
pdf
Wordperfect
Lyx
CHM (Microsoft help)
GNU info files
EPUB
Rar archives
7zip
iCalendar(.ics)
Mozilla calendar
postscript

29. Also it’s in Python!
<3 Python
Pretty good SDK too

30. Also other things (from website)
Easy installation, few dependencies. No database daemon, web server, desktop environment or
exotic language necessary.
Will run on most Unix-based systems, and on MS-Windows too.
Qt 4 GUI, plus command line, Unity Lens, KIO and krunner interfaces.
Searches most common document types, emails and their attachments. Transparently handles
decompression (gzip, bzip2).
Powerful query facilities, with boolean searches, phrases, proximity, wildcards, filter on file types and
directory tree.
Multi-language and multi-character set with Unicode based internals.
Extensive documentation, with a complete user manual and manual pages for each command.

31. Dakota Nelson
@jerkota
strikersecurity.com/source-boston-2017