Extract email addresses from PDF files
Brochures, attendee lists, invoices, catalogues: if an email address is in a PDF, Mailscoop finds it — even when the PDF is a scan.
Get Mailscoop for MacFree for the first 50 emails of every extraction · macOS 14 or later
Text PDFs and scanned PDFs
Mailscoop reads the text layer of every page. When a page has no text — a scan or a photo — it runs Apple's on-device text recognition (OCR) and finds the addresses in the image. Links like mailto: inside the PDF are picked up too.
Clean results, not a raw dump
Duplicates are merged and counted, invalid matches such as logo@2x.png are discarded, and obfuscated addresses like name [at] company [dot] com are recognised.
Your PDFs stay private
Nothing is uploaded. Online PDF email extractors send your documents to someone else's server; Mailscoop never leaves your Mac and has no permission to access the internet.
How it works
- Open Mailscoop and drag your PDFs (or a whole folder) onto the window.
- Watch the count grow as every page is scanned.
- Filter by domain, then export to CSV or TXT, or copy the list.
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Extract emails from scans and images with OCR →
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