Convert Email (.eml / .msg) to PDF — Offline
Drop .eml or .msg email files onto MiniMax Converter and turn them into PDF (or editable DOCX / ODT). The body renders with full Unicode fonts and attachments are embedded inside the file and saved to a sibling folder. Runs locally — no upload, no file-size limit, no watermark.
How to use it
- Drop one or more .eml or .msg email files onto MiniMax Converter.
- Pick the output format: .pdf for archival, or .docx / .odt if you want to keep editing.
- Or choose Extract instead to dump the body and attachments to a sibling folder without generating a document.
- Save — each email becomes a document with its attachments embedded, plus an unpacked copy in a sibling folder.
Real PDFs with selectable text, not screenshots
The email body is rendered with bundled DejaVu Unicode fonts, so accented names, currency symbols, Greek, Cyrillic and other non-Latin text come through as real, selectable, searchable text — not a flattened image of the message. A header block keeps the From / To / Subject / Date, and an Attachments section is listed at the end. You can also target .docx or .odt if you'd rather keep the result editable.
Attachments stay with the email
Attachments aren't discarded — they're embedded inside the generated file (native PDF embedded files you can pull from Acrobat / Foxit / Sumatra's Attachments pane, or stored inside the .docx / .odt zip). To be safe they're also unpacked into a sibling folder next to the output, so nothing is locked away if your reader can't open embeds. Prefer the raw files only? The Extract button dumps the body plus every attachment to a sibling folder and skips document generation entirely.
Why offline?
Emails carry private correspondence, invoices, contracts and personal attachments — exactly the things you don't want to upload to a stranger's server. Online .eml/.msg converters cap file sizes, queue your job, and often strip or re-host attachments. MiniMax Converter runs entirely on your machine: no upload, no size limit, no watermark, no telemetry. Drop a whole folder of archived mail and it processes them in batch, locally, at disk speed.
Questions and answers
What's the difference between .eml and .msg?
Both are supported. .eml is the open MIME format saved by Thunderbird, Apple Mail and most webmail exports; .msg is Outlook's proprietary format. MiniMax Converter reads either one and produces the same PDF/DOCX/ODT output.
Do the attachments survive the conversion?
Yes. They're embedded inside the output document and also written to a sibling folder named after the email, so you get them both ways. Any file type works — PDFs, images, zips, spreadsheets, even executables are preserved byte-for-byte.
Will non-English text and emoji render correctly?
Body text is rendered with bundled DejaVu Unicode fonts, so Latin-accented, Cyrillic, Greek and most European scripts come out as selectable text. Coverage depends on the font's glyph set; very rare scripts or color emoji may show as a fallback box rather than the original glyph.
Can I convert a whole folder of emails at once?
Yes. Drop multiple .eml/.msg files (or a folder of them) and the chosen action — PDF, DOCX, ODT, or Extract — applies to every email in bulk. It all runs offline on your machine with no per-file upload.
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