How to Extract Email Address from Text and HTML files

Email addresses can be some of the most disorganized content on your computer. Some email clients will save emails as they are delivered to your inbox while others may not. Sometimes you may receive a forwarded email with a valuable list of other email addresses in it. Your email client might skip over adding these to your contact list. Also, combining multiple mailboxes may also cause confusion between your contact lists if they are synced together. Hunting through emails to verify specific addresses or locate duplicates can be slow and exhausting no matter the amount of emails. Overall, managing an email list can be an involved process. There are current methods of email address extraction. A short search online will reveal a variety of SaaS (software as a service) websites that offer to do such an extraction. These websites enable text to be pasted into a field and then scanned for email addresses. A tremendous downside of these programs is the frequent copying and pasting. This adds a large amount of extra time to the extraction procedure. Also, some sites may have a character limit as to how much text may be pasted within the field. This creates problems for anyone with a good deal of text to scour through. Beyond this technique is the classic form of looking through emails individually. This means opening each email, locating the sender's address, clicking it, and choosing ‘Add to My Contacts'. This must be done for every email address in the email. Fortunately, a short visit to www.hothotsoftware.com to search ‘Software to Extract Email Addresses' will bring up a great piece of software for extracting email addresses from different file types. This software works entirely within a single window, reducing any chance of getting confused or lost while using the software. This window is divided into both a top and bottom segment. The top section is to input any files that you want to search through. These files may be added in individually through the ‘Add File(s)' button or the application can look for a specific file type within a folder. This means that the program can search your ‘My Documents' folder to locate any text files that may be saved there. The bottom portion of the window will display any email addresses that are found within the loaded files. These emails are located by clicking the ‘Extract E-mails Now!' button at the bottom of the window. To the bottom right of the window are several commands for search result refinement. The program can exclude any duplicate email addresses and also sort the addresses in ascending or descending order. Lastly, the results can then be saved into a file for simple storage. If you'd like to find out more on this software, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlfBxuCpg5s. Email addresses have become a common part of our everyday life. Keeping these addresses ordered can be a confusing process for anyone. Employ this software often to keep your contact list clean and organized.