xenophil90/eml-bulk-extract

A workflow to extract all attachments from a bunch of .eml files.

My workflow to bulk-extract email attachments

This workflow can be used to extract all attachments from a bunch of .eml files.

1. Randomly name every .eml file

find /path/to/folders -type f -name '*.eml' -execdir helper.sh {} ";"

helper.sh is part of this repository.

2. Copy all the .eml files into one single folder

find /path/to/folders -type f -name '*.eml' -exec cp -i {} /path/to/destination  \;

3. Create one folder per .eml file and extract the .eml contents into that directory

for file in *.eml; do
    mkdir $file-Attachements
    ripmime -i $file -v -d $file-Attachements
done

4. Delete all text files

find . -name 'textfile*' -exec rm {} \;

5. Delete all empty folders

find . -empty -type d -delete

6. What then?

After that, e. g. PDF files can be OCR'd...

find . -name '*.pdf' | parallel --tag -j 2 ocrmypdf '{}' '{}'