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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

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email-extractor's Issues

Add exact version of the dependencies

I have noticed that the PyPDF2 doesn't support a command on their latest version. So it is best practice to include the version of the dependencies in the requirements.txt!
Cheers.

Fixes PyPDF2

To get it running on my machine, I had to make these adjustments:

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Add the Six module as issued here #1

Please add six module to requirements.txt

I was getting this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\Downloads\email-extractor-master\extract_emails.py", line 9, in <module>
    from striprtf import striprtf
  File "E:\Downloads\email-extractor-master\striprtf.py", line 20, in <module>
    from six import unichr
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'six'

'pip install six' fixes it

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