Programming interface

Table of Contents

Writing a document input handler
Simple input handlers
"Multiple" handlers
Telling Recoll about the handler
Input handler output
Page numbers
Field data processing
Python API
Introduction
Interface elements
Log messages for Python scripts
Python search interface
Python indexing interface

Recoll has an Application Programming Interface, usable both for indexing and searching, currently accessible from the Python language.

Another less radical way to extend the application is to write input handlers for new types of documents.

The processing of metadata attributes for documents (fields) is highly configurable.

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