I'm on here looking for text indexers and everything is 'lightning fast exoscale terafloops that scales to enterprise quantawarbles with polytopplic performanations' and it would be great if this industry could breathe into a bag until it remembers that one person with one computer is a constituency that matters.
@mhoye Have a look at Recoll - www.recoll.org. Linux or Windows.
@alastair @mhoye Xapian (the back end for recoll) looks potentially interesting, will have to take a look at it...tx!