How to use the email address extractor to gather addresses from local files and folders

Email Address Collector helps you to easily extract email addresses from local files, including HTML, Excel, Word or PDF documents. Moreover, version 5 of Email Address Collector allows you to extract addresses from Office 2007 formatted documents.

To extract email addresses from files, you need to start Email Address Collector, then click on the "Local files & folders" tab from the left sided panel. The top panel will load your folder structure, allowing you to select a folder or a file to extract from.

Before beginning the address extraction process, you can choose to use filters. Practically, you can choose to extract email addresses only if they belong to specified domain names, only if the address contains certain words and so on. You can also exclude suspicious email addresses from the extraction list.

When the search and extraction job is performed, Email Address Collector will automatically eliminate all duplicates, displaying you a clean addresses list,ready to be used. You can save the list as an Excel table or you can export the email addresses as Contact items to your mail program (Office Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, etc).

If you need to extract email addresses from PDF files, please make sure that the PDF document is NOT encrypted. Also, Email Address Collector needs to download and install the PDF IFilter, in order to enable itself to extract from Adobe PDF documents.