Pinot provides a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes. This service can then be used via a command-line interface, or through a GTK-based GUI that enables to query the index built by the service and your favourite Web engines, and display and analyze the results.

Pinot also provides a Xesam interface, which can be used through Xesam Query Language and Xesam User Language.

To crawl rpm files, install the packages rpm and file.