What to do About Email: How to Extract Data from Microsoft PST Files

▤ Summary

There are some very good commercial solutions for getting the information in PSTs, but they require Windows operating environments and are closed source. Follow along with me here, dear reader, and Ill show you a tool that makes extracting email from PSTs a lot less tricky. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the RATOM project aims to apply machine learning to the thorny problem of archival email processing. Archivists are tasked with cataloging the contents of email inboxes and digging out relevant records when citizens and journalists request them, but dealing with this data is never easy. By the way, all of the code developed by both Caktus and the UNC-SILS team is available on github, released under the MIT open source license.

▦ Linked Companies

GitHub, Inc.

$1M to $5M

Microsoft

$1B+