Email Extraction for Academic Researchers

Keep the research context with each address

Email Extractor can collect published email addresses from papers, department pages and conference documents. It does not identify every author, confirm research expertise or establish permission to contact someone. A corresponding author's address may be the only contact published in a paper.

Start with a defined research purpose: asking about a method, requesting a dataset through its stated access process, or inviting a relevant collaborator. Keep the paper title, publication date and reason for contact alongside the result. An address without that context is difficult to review responsibly.

Extract from papers and proceedings

1. Obtain documents you are authorized to use.
2. In Text and files, upload the PDFs or paste their selectable text.
3. Click Extract emails.
4. Review the results and download CSV + sources when you need provenance.

PDF extraction reads available text and email annotations. A scanned page may need text recognition before extraction. An image of an address is not the same as searchable text. Files are limited to 25 MB each and 100 MB per batch.

Compare a sample of results with the original papers. Old affiliations, publisher contacts and addresses quoted in references can appear alongside current author contacts. The tool finds addresses; it does not decide which person should receive your message.

Use directories as a separate input

For public department or laboratory pages, switch to Webpages, enter the relevant URLs, allow downloading and click Load webpages. After pages load, click Extract emails. A run supports up to 10 websites and 25 pages per website. Following important links does not make a directory search comprehensive.

For content already open in your browser, the optional extension reads accessible loaded content when you request it. Unloaded directory rows and restricted embedded content may be absent. A profile showing only an institutional domain does not reveal the person's complete email address; do not manufacture it from a naming pattern.

Review before contacting researchers

A published address is not evidence that its owner agreed to a mailing list. For surveys, follow your institution's research ethics process and recruitment rules. Published directory contacts can also create sampling bias: researchers without public addresses will be missing.

For reviewer invitations, assess expertise and conflicts separately. For collaboration, write a specific, relevant enquiry and use the project's preferred contact route. Preserve your reviewed source records securely rather than treating the extracted list as an automatically qualified audience.

Read the PDF extraction guide for document limitations, then open the extractor.