pdf2mbox 0.3.2

Extracts email metadata and text from a PDF file

pdf2mbox

a command-line utility and Python package for converting PDF emails to MBOX format

Installation

pip install pdf2mbox

Usage

# from the command line
% python -m pdf2mbox --help
usage: pdf2mbox.py [-h] [--version] [--overwrite] [--csv [CSV]]
                   pdf_file [mbox_file]

Generates an mbox from a PDF containing emails

positional arguments:
  pdf_file         PDF file provided as input
  mbox_file        Mbox file generated as output

optional arguments:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --version, -v    show program's version number and exit
  --overwrite, -o  overwrite MBOX file if it exists
  --csv [CSV]      generate CSV file output

# from within python
from pdf2mbox import pdf2mbox
pe = pdf2mbox(pdf_file, mbox_file) # pe contains dict of emails

Notes

• The initial development of this package was funded in part by The Mellon Foundation’s “Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community” program.