Airparser vs PHP MIME Mail Parser

Airparser turns emails, PDFs, and other documents into structured fields you define. Its text and vision language models plus AI OCR handle typed text, scans, and handwriting, with recognition in more than 60 languages. Low-confidence results can wait for human review, correction, and approval before export. Parsed information can be downloaded as Excel, CSV, or JSON, or sent to webhooks and services including Zapier, Make, n8n, Google Sheets, and Airtable. Python post-processing is included in plans, and an AI code assistant can draft and test code from plain-language instructions. Airparser works through the web and an API, with workflow routing and cloud deployment. Each parsed email, document, or PDF page consumes one credit, and unused credits expire at the billing period’s end. A Trial plan is listed at free with 20 credits/month and 30 days’ retention. Paid plans start at $33 a month, billed annually.

PHP MIME Mail Parser is a PHP library for reading MIME email, built around the mailparse extension. It can handle mail forwarded from Postfix, read.eml messages, support webmail creation, and store email information in a database. Messages may be provided by file path, raw MIME text, PHP file resource, or stream such as stdin. The parser returns headers as raw text or an array with character-set conversion, and can extract addresses and subject. For message content, it retrieves text and HTML bodies, including HTML with embedded content such as images. It can list and save attachments, include or omit inline attachments, and apply a strategy for duplicate filenames. Installation is recommended through Composer as php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser. It requires PHP 8.2 or later and the mailparse extension; listed supported PHP versions are 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, and 8.5. The library supports Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted use, and is released under the MIT license. Pricing is free.