Extracts email metadata and text body from a PDF containing emails.

pip install xmpdf

from xmpdf import Xmpdf

ems = Xmpdf(pdf_file)
# print summary info about emails in PDF file
print(ems.info())
# process emails
for m in ems.emails:
    process(m)

If you encounter errors installing xmpdf, please check the OS-level dependencies of the pdftotext package to ensure you have the required libraries installed, as xmpdf utilizes this package.

• Assumes an email ends when a new email begins
• Works best with a standard email header (i.e., From:, To:, Sent:, Subject:)
• The initial development of this package was funded in part by The Mellon Foundation’s “Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community” program.