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Parsing OST & PST email files for textual extraction and search

Added by Kari Smith · last edited by Kari Smith · on Jun 04, 2013 (view change)

The issue is that PST/OST [MS Outlook] files cannot be used by many text extraction tools because they generally require MBOX format.

We want to have a solution that parses email messages so that they can be further used by other text extraction and search tools.

Critical to the parsing is to have at minimum:

Sender
Recipient
Date
Subject Line
Message Body

Issue Champions

"Bill LeFurgy

"Kari Smith

Solution Requirements

Solution does not need to be cross-platform as we anticipate this to be a function or task that will be run periodically and users of the solution will have access to multiple operating systems if necessary.