Email Archive to PDF · Free tool
Drop a folder of Outlook .msg, .eml or Apple Mail .emlx files. You get one searchable PDF per email with its attachments inside, plus a ZIP and an Excel index. Free for up to 20 emails per run, and nothing is uploaded.One searchable PDF per email, attachments inside, plus a ZIP and an Excel index. Free for up to 20 emails per run. Nothing is uploaded.
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Outlook .msg, .eml and Apple Mail .emlx. Folders are searched, subfolders too. No emails at hand? See a sample PDF.
Choosing a folder: your browser asks whether to “upload” it. That is its standard wording for letting this page read the files; they stay in this tab. Dragging the folder here asks nothing.
Your emails never leave your device. They are read and turned into PDFs inside this browser tab, and remote images and tracking pixels are never loaded. How to check
This browser holds a licence key, but Polar hasn’t confirmed it for over 30 days (it couldn’t be reached), so the free limit applies for now.
No limit on emails per run in this browser.
Frees this browser’s activation at Polar (a key works in 3 browsers at a time) and removes the key from this browser.
Reading your emails…
Use YYYY MM DD HHMM From FromEmail To Subject Original Index; anything else is kept as typed.
Single PDFs: use the PDF buttons in the list. Files stay in this tab until you close or reload it.
| Convert | Date | From | Subject | Attachments | Status |
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Choose .msg, .eml or .emlx files, or a whole folder: subfolders are searched too. The list shows each email's date, sender, subject and attachments.
Untick what you don't need. Choose A4 or Letter, the date format, the time zone and how the PDF files are named. Sensible defaults are already set for your language and region.
Get one ZIP with every PDF and an Excel index of the emails, or download single PDFs from the list. Nothing is uploaded at any step.
2026-03-03 1415 - Robin Hart - Inspection photos.pdf that sorts by date.| File | Comes from | Notes |
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.msg | Classic Outlook for Windows, document systems, e-discovery exports | Unicode and older ANSI files, HTML, rich-text (RTF) and plain bodies, attached Outlook items. More about MSG to PDF |
.eml | New Outlook, Outlook on the web, Gmail, Apple Mail, Thunderbird | Any character set, inline pictures, attached emails. More about EML to PDF |
.emlx | Apple Mail's own message files | Read like .eml. A .partial.emlx file has its attachments stored elsewhere, so they are missing. |
Emails hold contracts, personal details and client secrets, so this converter never sends them anywhere. Your browser reads each file from your disk, and the PDFs are made right here, in this tab. There is no upload, no account, no cookies and no analytics. Close the tab and your emails and PDFs are gone from it. In this browser’s storage the page keeps only your PDF options, your licence key if you enter one, and, while a conversion runs, the file name of the email being converted, so that if the tab crashes the next visit can tell you which email it stopped on (it is removed as soon as that email is done).
Emails are also hostile ground: newsletters and phishing emails carry tracking pixels and remote images that tell the sender when and where an email was opened. This tool never loads them. Scripts, forms and frames inside an email are thrown away before anything is drawn, and attachments are treated as data: they are never opened or run.
You don't have to take our word for it. This page carries a security policy that your browser enforces. The important rule is connect-src https://api.polar.sh: no script on this page, the converter included, can send data to any server except one, the licence-key service of Polar, our reseller (see below). The page does fetch its own program files from this site when you add emails (plain requests for .js files, which carry nothing of yours). Images may only come from this site or from inside the email (img-src 'self' data: blob:), so a tracking pixel has nowhere to load from. The full policy, from this page's source:
default-src 'self'; script-src 'self'; style-src 'self'; img-src 'self' data: blob:; font-src 'self'; connect-src https://api.polar.sh; worker-src 'self' blob:; child-src 'none'; frame-src 'none'; object-src 'none'; media-src 'none'; manifest-src 'none'; base-uri 'none'; form-action 'none'
Two easy tests. Open your browser's developer tools on the Network tab: you will see this site's own .js files load when you add emails, and nothing at all while you convert. Or add your emails, wait until the list says “Converter loaded”, turn off your Wi-Fi and press Convert.
api.polar.sh holding the key, our two Polar IDs (the organization and the product’s licence benefit), the label “browser” when the key is activated, and the activation ID Polar gave this browser. Never an email, a file name or a PDF. Your browser adds what it adds to any request (your IP address, its name and version, and this site’s address as the origin); no cookies. You can watch these requests in the Network tab too.e2p.licence: the key, the activation ID and the time Polar last confirmed it. “Use this licence on another device” deletes it. Clearing this site’s data deletes it too, and so does closing a private window, but then the activation stays counted at Polar until you remove it in Polar’s customer portal (in a private window, press “Use this licence on another device” before closing it).Sources: Microsoft Support (Save As), Microsoft Q&A (dragging)
Sources: Microsoft Support, Microsoft Q&A
Source: Microsoft Support
Source: Apple Mail User Guide
Sources: Microsoft Support (.eml files in Outlook for Mac 16.58+), CodeTwo knowledge base (dragging)
Source: Gmail Help
Source: Mozilla Support forum
No. The emails are read and turned into PDFs by JavaScript inside your browser tab, and nothing from them is sent to any server, including ours. The page's security policy (connect-src https://api.polar.sh) blocks every connection except one: Polar's licence-key service. The page contacts it only when a licence key is involved: once each time you open the page in a browser that has a key stored, and when you enter, re-check or free a key. It sends only the key and licence IDs, never anything from your emails. Without a licence key, the only requests after the page loads are for the converter's own program files from this site. You can check: add your emails, wait until the list says the converter is loaded, then turn off your Wi-Fi and convert.
Yes, for up to 20 emails per run, with every feature: attachments, the ZIP and the Excel index. There is no sign-up and no watermark. For whole archives there is a full licence with no limit per run: $29, one payment, no subscription (on sale soon).
You buy it once from Polar, our reseller. Your licence key (it starts with E2P-) is then on your purchase in Polar's customer portal: open “Access purchase” in Polar's order email, or sign in at polar.sh/newellabs/portal with the email you bought with. Paste the key into the converter: the page checks it with Polar, and that browser can then convert any number of emails per run. One key works in up to 3 browsers at a time; “Use this licence on another device” frees one, and so does removing an activation in Polar's customer portal. The browser keeps the key in its local storage and checks it with Polar once each time you open the page; if Polar can't be reached, the licence keeps working for 30 days after the last successful check. A private window forgets the key when it closes, but its activation stays counted: press “Use this licence on another device” before closing it, or remove the activation in the portal. Only the key and licence IDs are sent to Polar, never your emails. (On sale soon.)
PDF attachments are added page by page after the email, and photos and other pictures (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP) get their own pages. An attached email is shown as a message, followed by its own PDF and image attachments. Everything else, such as Word, Excel or ZIP files, is embedded inside the PDF as a file attachment, which opens from the attachments (paperclip) panel in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader or Firefox. Chrome, Edge and Apple Preview don't show embedded files, so the ZIP also holds each original file next to its PDF (you can switch that off). The table at the top of each PDF says where every attachment is.
Yes. The email is written into the PDF as real text, not as a picture, so you can search it, select it and copy it, and document management and e-discovery systems can index it. Pages copied from PDF attachments keep their own text as well.
Yes. The new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web save emails as .eml files (More actions, then Save as or Download), and this tool converts .eml as well as the .msg files from classic Outlook. The guides on this page show the steps for each app.
Not yet. A .pst or .mbox file holds a whole mailbox. Save the emails you need as separate .msg or .eml files first: in classic Outlook select them and drag them to a folder, in Apple Mail drag them to Finder, and in Thunderbird use Save As on the selected emails. Then drop that folder here.
Never. Images that an email loads from the internet are left out and marked "remote image not loaded" in the PDF, and invisible tracking pixels are dropped, so the sender cannot see that the email was opened. Images that travel inside the email are drawn normally.
Your device's time zone unless you choose another: UTC, each sender's own time zone, or any named time zone. Every date in the PDF shows its UTC offset, so the time is never ambiguous, and the Excel index stores real Excel dates you can sort and filter.