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Extract Dates From Text

Paste any text and instantly pull out every date inside it. It recognises ISO dates, slash dates and written dates with full or abbreviated month names, and can de-duplicate and sort the list.

How to extract dates

  1. Paste text, an email or a document that mentions dates.
  2. Optionally turn on remove duplicates and sort.
  3. Copy the clean list of dates.

Examples

Pull dates from a sentence

Filed 2026-06-11, served 06/11/2026, hearing June 11, 2026.
2026-06-11
06/11/2026
June 11, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which date formats are detected?

ISO dates such as 2026-06-11, slash dates such as 06/11/2026, and written dates such as June 11, 2026 or 11 June 2026 with full or short month names.

How are ambiguous slash dates handled?

Because 06/11/2026 could be month-day or day-month, the date is kept exactly as written rather than being reordered or reinterpreted.

Will it match a plain number by mistake?

No. A bare number with no separators or month name, such as a year or an invoice number on its own, is not treated as a date.

Are impossible dates filtered out?

Numeric dates are range checked, so an ISO month above 12 or a day above 31, like 2026-13-01, is ignored.

Is my text private?

Yes. Everything runs in your browser and nothing is uploaded.

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