Email Collector

In most cases, the search engine used in email extractor is powerful enough to extract email addresses from online sources such as websites, and also capable of automatically detecting and eliminating duplicate emails. Most email extractors have a user-friendly interface, high-speed performance and are easy to use. One of the salient features of the email extractor applications is their impressive speed, as they are capable of retrieving thousands of email addresses while doing an in-depth search through the computer. Email extractors search through different layers of the internet as well as offline sites and generate a file containing the email addresses it has collected. Some email extractors can be integrated with other applications to send out email messages to the large list of recipients.

An email extractor can help businesses to greatly reduce time and effort in the search for contacts and to get in touch with potential customers. It is capable of raising an email marketing campaign to the next possible level.

In many countries such as the U.S., spam emails have been outlawed and usage of an email extractor to harvest email addresses can result in penalties and prison time if the offense is serious. Email addresses can be formatted online in different ways to avoid detection by email extractors, such as "info [at] techopedia [dot] com."