Open an Outlook archive in this page

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• The file never leaves your machine. The bytes are read by the page itself through the file picker. There is no upload, no server-side step and no network call at all — the browser console is the test: the only requests are this page, its stylesheet and its two scripts.
• The viewer is read-only, and experiments happen on a copy. Nothing is written back to the archive. The command-line tool does the full extraction to text files; this page stops at the folder tree, the counts and the first messages.
• Compressed archives are not supported yet. If an archive stores a zlib-compressed block, the page stops with a clear message instead of guessing. The command-line tool handles those; this build does not.
• It is the same parser, not a re-implementation. pst-extractor's own parsing code is bundled here unchanged; the browser build supplies the file access it would otherwise get from the operating system.
• What the parser says about a damaged archive is shown on the page. Real stores are often slightly damaged, and the parser reports a folder whose child list cannot be read through the console. This page captures those reports and prints them as parser notes under the result, so you read them without opening a developer console. They describe the archive, not a failure of the page — an archive that reads with notes still reports its folder and message counts.