Given their capacity to transmit information across systems in a portable format, it is simple to acquire a library of PDFs. If you have a large number of them, you can harvest any email addresses that are contained within them for business objectives, such as building a customer or vendor database. Individual email addresses or groups of email addresses can be extracted from PDFs using a variety of apps, including Email Extractor Files v5.0, Extract Emails from PDF Files 9.0, and PDFill PDF Editor 9.0, among others.
How To Extract Emails from PDFs
1. With the Use of PDFill
- Go to the PDFill PDF Editor 9.0 download page (see Resources) and click “Download” and then “Download Now.” 2 Go to the PDFill PDF Editor 9.0 download page and click “Download” and then “Download Now.”
- Save PDFill and then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation of PDFill. To complete the process, click “Finish.” The PDFill PDF Editor will now be launched.
- Select “Open new PDF Product” from the “File” drop-down menu. Click “Look in” and navigate to the PDF file containing the email address you want to extract from your computer’s hard drive. To open the file, click “Open.”
- To enter the Import/Export Forms Data dialog box, go to the “File” menu and select “Import/Export Forms Data.”
- Select “Export into Text” and type a name for the file that will contain the email address that you will be extracting into it.
- To manipulate the email addresses, open the file that contains them in your word processing or spreadsheet program.
2. Email Extractor
- Go to the Email Extractor Files v5.0 download page and click on the “Free Download” button.
- Run the “Setup” file by double-clicking it and following the installation prompts provided by the installation wizard. Complete the installation by selecting “Finish” and launching the program.
- To trial the program for free, simply click on the “Try” button. In order to open a file browser, select “File” and then “Add Files.” Search your computer for the PDF file that contains the email that you want to extract and click “Open.”
- The emails included in the PDF are listed under the heading “Email List – Extracted Emails from Files.”
- Select the option choice that says “Auto Extract Emails.”
3. Software for PDF Files (version 9.0)
- Go to the Extract Emails from PDF Files Software 9.0 download website (see Resources) and click “Download.”
- After that, install the software.
- Make a backup of the application. Completing the installation is as simple as following the installation instructions of the installation wizard, agreeing to the terms and conditions, and clicking “Finish.”
- Launch the Extract Emails from PDF Files Software 9.0 and select “Browse Files” from the drop-down menu.
- Find the folder containing the PDF file you want to extract and double-click it. Select “Add File(s)” from the drop-down menu. The emails that are contained within the PDF are displayed in the window.