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 doc extension then you must have
On windows you must install pypiwin32
On Linux or Mac Install Libre Office

pypiwin32 is Windows python module so ignore 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 output file for each run otherwise it will overwrite the existing results.

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 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

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