Windows desktop software · Local-first
Recover the contacts buried in years of email.
EML Contacts turns historical email archives into a clean, reviewable address book. Recover the details, consolidate duplicates and export the contacts you choose — all on your computer.
Preparing for first public release
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Years of correspondence. Useful details left behind.
Contact information rarely lives in one tidy place. It sits in senders and recipients, signatures, forwarded messages and long-forgotten conversations.
EML Contacts brings those details together so you can inspect what was found and decide what belongs in your address book.
A considered workflow
From archive to address book.
Four clear stages, with review at the centre.
Import
Open EML collections, Outlook PST files or MBOX archives from your computer.
Extract
Recover structured contact details from messages and signatures. Optional local AI-assisted extraction uses Ollama.
Review & consolidate
Inspect the evidence, check uncertain details and review consolidated contacts. Extraction can need correction; your judgement matters.
Export
Choose the contacts to keep and export a useful address book in CSV, XLSX or VCF format.
Local by design
Your mail archive stays on your computer.
Your correspondence is yours to work with. EML Contacts processes archives locally, without requiring an upload to a hosted service.
Privacy informationLocal archives and projects
Source archives and project databases stay on your machine, under your control.
Optional local inference
Where configured, Ollama assists extraction locally. You don’t need a cloud AI service.
Your results to keep
You control the source material and the resulting contact data, including what you choose to export.
Evidence before assumptions
Built for review, not blind extraction.
A recovered detail is a starting point. Keep the context you need to make a confident decision.
- Inspect the source
- Trace recovered details back to their source messages and evidence.
- Bring repeated contacts together
- Review deduplicated, consolidated contacts and check details that need attention.
- Compare what you already have
- Compare recovered contacts with an existing address book. Compare later builds and carry forward eligible review decisions after checking them.
Bring your history
Familiar archive formats.
Work with mail you’ve already saved or exported.
- EML
- Outlook PST
- MBOX
Keep something useful
An address book you can use.
Export reviewed contacts for spreadsheets or address-book import.
- CSV
- XLSX
- VCF
File exports, with no direct account synchronisation.
For long working histories
Professional relationships shouldn’t get lost in an archive.
For firms and individuals with years of correspondence, recovering a useful contact list is practical housekeeping.
Law firms, accountants, recruiters, consultancies, property businesses and professional advisers can all accumulate contact details across many years of email.
Preparing for first public release
A useful past. A clearer address book.
EML Contacts 0.1.0 is being prepared for its first public release. No public download is available yet.