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To extract a text from emails getText method is used. This method allows to extract a text from the entire document. Pagination and raw mode is not supported for emails.

Here are the steps to extract a text from an email:

• Instantiate Parser object for the initial email;
• Call getText method and obtain TextReader object;
• Read a text from reader.

Warning

getText method returns null value if text extraction isn’t supported for the document. For example, text extraction isn’t supported for Zip archive. Therefore, for Zip archive getText method returns null. For an empty email getText method returns an empty TextReader object (readToEnd method returns an empty string).

The following example demonstrates how to extract a text from the email:

// Create an instance of Parser class
try (Parser parser = new Parser(Constants.SampleMsg)) {
    // Extract a text into the reader
    try (TextReader reader = parser.getText()) {
        // Print a text from the email
        System.out.println(reader.readToEnd());
    }
}

GroupDocs.Parser also allows to extract a text from emails as HTML, Markdown and formatted plain text. For more details, see Extract Formatted Text.

Here are the steps to extract a text from an email as HTML:

• Instantiate Parser object for the initial email;
• Call getFormattedText(FormattedTextOptions) method and obtain TextReader object;
• Read a text from reader.

The following example shows how to extract a text from an email as HTML:

// Create an instance of Parser class
try (Parser parser = new Parser(Constants.SampleMsg)) {
    // Extract a formatted text into the reader
    try (TextReader reader = parser.getFormattedText(new FormattedTextOptions(FormattedTextMode.Html))) {
        // Print a formatted text from the email
        System.out.println(reader.readToEnd());
    }
}

You may easily run the code above and see the feature in action in our GitHub examples:

• GroupDocs.Parser for .NET examples
• GroupDocs.Parser for Java examples

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