Number Extractor
Extract all numbers from any text quickly. Paste your content to get every number as a list, then copy results for analysis or cleanup.
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What this does
Need the numbers out of a piece of text and nothing else? This strips them out for you. Paste your content and the tool collects every number it finds and lays them out as a list you can copy. It is the fast way to separate the figures from the words around them.
How to use it
- Paste your text into the left-hand box.
- Press Get Numbers, and the figures appear on the right.
- Press Copy to lift the list out, or Clear to start over.
Everything runs in your browser, so any text you drop in, sensitive or not, stays on your own device.
What it pulls out
The tool hunts for runs of digits and pulls each one out as a separate entry. Wherever there is a stretch of numbers sitting in your text, it grabs it. So from a sentence like Order 4521 shipped to unit 12, you would get 4521 and 12. The words fall away and you are left with just the figures, in the order they appeared.
How it treats decimals and commas
This is the part that catches people, so it is worth spelling out. The tool collects unbroken runs of digits, which means anything sitting between digits, like a decimal point or a thousands comma, acts as a break rather than part of the number. So 3.14 comes out as two separate entries, 3 and 14, because the dot splits the run. In the same way 1,000 becomes 1 and 000, since the comma divides it. A minus sign in front of a figure is dropped as well, leaving only the digits behind it.
So think of the results as groups of digits rather than whole mathematical numbers. For plain whole numbers it is spot on, and once you know how it treats decimals and commas, the output makes perfect sense. As with its sister tools, it does not remove duplicates, so a figure that appears more than once is listed each time.
When you would use it
Pulling the numbers out of text is handy in all sorts of small ways. You might be lifting reference numbers, order IDs, or codes out of a message, gathering quantities from a list, or cleaning up data where the figures are tangled in with text. Rather than picking each number out by eye and risking a slip, you get them all in one list and can carry on with sorting or checking them.
Questions people ask
Why did 3.14 come out as 3 and 14?
The tool collects unbroken digit runs, and the decimal point breaks the run in two. So a decimal is split into the digits on either side of the dot.
What happens to commas in large numbers?
They split the number as well. A figure like 1,000 is read as 1 and 000, because the comma divides the digit run.
Does it keep negative signs?
No. Only the digits are collected, so a minus sign in front of a number is left out and you get the bare figure.
Is my text uploaded anywhere?
No. The extraction happens in your browser, so nothing you paste is sent off or stored.
Sarayu is an Assistant Lecturer at Herald College, currently studying Masters of Engineering at KU. She is a Software engineer and educator who enjoys writing, and publishes essays and articles. She helps to review word/text utilities for clarity and usability.