Extract emails from rtf, txt, text, doc,docx, and PDF file

• Install Python3 and Pip3
• pip3 install -r requirements.txt
• python extract_emails.py --help

Note:

If your file has a doc extension then you must have

• On Windows you must install pypiwin32
• On Linux or Mac Install Libre Office

pypiwin32 is a Windows python module so ignore the install error on Linux-based os.

Options

• --dir option to provide the directory/folder absolute path, default is current folder
• --file option to scan only one file
• --ext option to restrict the scanning of file extensions, default all supported extensions
• --dst option to set the output file name, by default it will print on the console

NOTE: Change the output file for each run otherwise it will overwrite the existing results.

Usage

Extract emails from a specific file xyz.pdf

python extract_emails.py --file=xyz.pdf --dst=emails.txt

Extract emails from all files from a folder/directory XYZ

python extract_emails.py --dir=XYZ --dst=emails.txt

While scanning a folder/directory you can specify file extensions as well, for example, it should only scan pdf files and then do

python extract_emails.py --dir=XYZ --dst=emails.txt --ext pdf

Scan directory but only parse doc and pdf files

python extract_emails.py --dir=XYZ --dst=emails.txt --ext pdf doc