Text & Pattern Extraction

You already have the text — a log, an export, a wall of pasted content — and you need the specific values buried in it: the addresses, the numbers, anything with a recognisable shape. These tools each match one kind of value and hand it back deduplicated and ready to use. Every one runs in your browser, so nothing you paste is uploaded.

Which tool do you need?

If you…Use
You have text and want the email addresses or links in itEmail & URL Extractor
You want the phone numbers, in international formatPhone Number Extractor
You want the IP addresses out of a logIP Address Extractor
You want values with a shape no standard tool coversRegex Extractor

These tools do not open files — they work on text. To get text out of a document or a PDF first, start with the document tools or the PDF tools, then bring the result here.

What these tools have in common

Every tool here works on characters rather than pixels, which is what makes them exact. When a value exists in the text, extraction reads it back byte for byte — nothing is inferred and nothing is guessed. That distinguishes them from OCR, which reconstructs characters from shapes and is therefore never perfect.

They also all start from text you already have. If your text is still locked inside a document, a PDF or an image, it has to come out first: the document tools, the PDF tools and image-to-text OCR all produce plain text that these pattern tools then work on. Getting the text out and finding values in it are genuinely different operations, which is why they are different tools.

Every text & patterns tool

Frequently asked questions

Which tool should I use to get email addresses out of a PDF?

Two steps. Extract the text with the PDF text extractor, then paste the result into the email and URL extractor. No single tool does both, because they are genuinely different operations.

What is the difference between the regex extractor and the other tools here?

The others match one pattern that was chosen for you and refined for that job. The regex extractor lets you write the pattern, which is what you need for values that have a shape but no standard — internal reference codes, log formats, proprietary identifiers.

Do any of these upload my text?

No. Every tool in this group runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste or open is transmitted.

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