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Email extractor

Find email addresses in pasted text.

Runs in this tab. The file stays here.

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This runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

About Email extractor

Find email-shaped addresses in pasted text offline — format match only, no mailbox checks.

Pulling emails out of a PDF paste, a résumé dump, or a forum thread should not require uploading the document to a lead-gen site. Paste the text, get the addresses that look like emails, copy them. That is the job.

Matching is pattern-based. It will not prove the mailbox exists, will not send mail, and will not talk to your ESP. Typos and obfuscated addresses (name [at] domain) may be missed — that is a feature when you care about false positives.

For validating syntax of one address you already have, the developer email validator is stricter about structure. For scrubbing emails out of text before you share it, use the PII redactor.

How to use Email extractor

  1. 1Paste the source text.
  2. 2Review detected email addresses.
  3. 3Copy the list; verify anything important by hand.

What it won't do

  • Heuristic patterns — not a CRM import guarantee.
  • No SMTP or DNS verification.

Common questions

Does this check if an email can receive mail?

No. Format-shaped matches only. Deliverability needs DNS and mailbox checks this page will not do.

Is the text uploaded?

No. Extraction runs in the browser on what you pasted.

How is this different from the email validator?

Extractor finds many candidates in a blob of text. Validator inspects one address’s structure more carefully.

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Why this one doesn't upload your file

There is no server to upload to. This page is a static file, and the work happens in your browser using the same graphics and WebAssembly code that renders every other site you visit. Your file is read from disk into memory, processed, and handed back as a download. Once the page has loaded you can disconnect from the network entirely and it keeps working. The longer explanation

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