EML Converter

Extract text from email messages (EML)


Drop or upload your .EML file
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How to extract text from your EML file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your EML file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert EML to another file type

To convert EML emails to another format, you need Microsoft Outlook or other Text software.

Convert a file to EML

To convert other file formats to the "Saved Email Message" file type, you need software like Microsoft Outlook or a similar tool.


About EML files

The .EML file is a standard electronic mail message saved in plain text format. It contains the email's header (sender, recipient, subject, date), the main body, and any attachments encoded in MIME format. You can open these files natively using email clients like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird. However, dealing with .EML files outside of a dedicated email client is frustrating. They are difficult to read on mobile devices, and the standard Base64 encoding inflates attachment file sizes by roughly 33 percent. Furthermore, extracting attachments manually from the raw text requires parsing thousands of lines of encoded characters. For archiving and universal sharing, convert .EML to .PDF. To migrate the data into a strict Microsoft environment, convert to .MSG. For raw data analysis, convert to .TXT.

Convert.Guru analyzes your EML file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

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FAQ

If you want to convert EML file to PDF, JPG, MSG, HTML, PST, TXT, RTF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PAGES or TEX, you can use Microsoft Outlook or similar software from the "Email Archive Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert PDF, DOC, ASC, TODO, NFO, MEMO, README, DOCX, JPG, TXT, NOTE or RTF files to EML, try Microsoft Outlook or another comparable tool in the "Email Archive Storage" category.



The EML Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our EML converter.