Email extractor

How to use it

1. Paste the text that has the email addresses in it.
2. Keep Remove duplicates on, and add a domain if you only want addresses from one company.
3. Copy the list. Choose semicolons for Outlook’s To field, commas for Gmail.

What it finds

Anything shaped like an email address: letters, numbers, dots, plus signs and hyphens before the @, and a domain with a dot after it. Addresses inside brackets, after a colon, at the end of a sentence or inside a CSV row are all picked up, and a full stop at the end is dropped.

It does not check that an address exists or will accept mail; for that you need a verification service. It only finds what is written in the text.

Extract emails from a PDF

Open the PDF, press Ctrl+A to select everything (⌘+A on a Mac), copy it, and paste it into the box. Every address comes out, even when the PDF breaks lines in odd places. A scanned PDF is a picture of a page, so it has no text to copy; run it through text recognition (OCR) first, such as opening it in Google Drive with Google Docs.

Using it responsibly

Use it for your own contacts, sign-up exports, event lists and mail threads you are part of. Sending marketing email to addresses collected from other people’s pages breaks anti-spam law in most countries (CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CASL) and the rules of every email provider.

Next steps with the list

• Merge lists from several places, then run them through remove duplicate lines.
• Turn a column of addresses into one line with the comma separator.
• Compare an old list with a new one in text compare.

Last checked October 2026.