Does Extract Numbers upload my file or text to Tool-You servers?

No. Extract Numbers runs in this browser tab. Files stay on the device. Limit note: Optional sign and fraction. Duplicates removed. Scientific notation not kept as one token. Max 200,000 characters.

Should I use Word Counter instead of Extract Numbers?

Use Extract Numbers when you need Pull decimal numbers out of pasted text. Use Word Counter when you need Count words, characters, lines, and UTF-8 bytes. They share a category (Text) but not the same job.

What are the limits of Extract Numbers?

Optional sign and fraction. Duplicates removed. Scientific notation not kept as one token. Max 200,000 characters. Also: Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator.

Extract Numbers

Pull decimal numbers out of pasted text.

Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator.

What Extract Numbers does

Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator.

Extract Numbers sits in the Text group on purpose. It is not Word Counter (Count words, characters, lines, and UTF-8 bytes.) and not Extract IPv4 (Pull IPv4 addresses from text.). Choose this page when you need Pull decimal numbers out of pasted text. If you stretch Extract Numbers into a neighbor’s job, the result will look wrong even though the site chrome looks the same.

How to use Extract Numbers

Keep this tab on Extract Numbers (/extract-numbers). Pasting into the wrong Text tool (for example Word Counter) changes the job.
Paste or type the input Extract Numbers expects. Path hint: extract numbers. Pull decimal numbers out of pasted text.
Apply the Extract Numbers action only. Extract IPv4 is a different transform (Pull IPv4 addresses from text.). Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator.
Copy the output of Extract Numbers if you need it elsewhere. Size/complexity still follows: Optional sign and fraction. Duplicates removed. Scientific notation not kept as one token. Max 200,000 characters.
If the text job is actually Count words, characters, lines, and UTF-8 bytes., leave Extract Numbers and open Word Counter.

When not to use Extract Numbers

Skip Extract Numbers when a neighbor tool matches better — start with Word Counter or Extract IPv4 — or when the description already warns the job will fail. In the tool’s own words: Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator.

Questions about Extract Numbers

What does Extract Numbers do that other Text pages on this site do not?: Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator. Short version: Pull decimal numbers out of pasted text.
Does Extract Numbers upload my file or text to Tool-You servers?: No. Extract Numbers runs in this browser tab. Files stay on the device. Limit note: Optional sign and fraction. Duplicates removed. Scientific notation not kept as one token. Max 200,000 characters.
Should I use Word Counter instead of Extract Numbers?: Use Extract Numbers when you need Pull decimal numbers out of pasted text. Use Word Counter when you need Count words, characters, lines, and UTF-8 bytes. They share a category (Text) but not the same job.
What are the limits of Extract Numbers?: Optional sign and fraction. Duplicates removed. Scientific notation not kept as one token. Max 200,000 characters. Also: Keeps optional signs and a fractional part. Duplicates dropped. 1.2.3.4 is read as 1.2 and 3.4, not four octets. Not a calculator.