Date Extractor
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Find and extract all dates from any text.
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Examples
Meeting scheduled for January 15, 2024. Follow-up on 01/20/2024.
Found 2 dates: 2024-01-15 (January 15, 2024) 2024-01-20 (01/20/2024)
Born on 15th March 1990. Graduated 2012.
Found 2 dates: 1990-03-15 (15th March 1990) 2012 (year only)
Why Use This Tool?
What problems does this solve?
Dates appear in many formats throughout documents. Extracting and identifying all dates requires understanding multiple formats and careful searching.
Common use cases:
- Building timelines from document content
- Extracting deadlines and milestones from project documents
- Collecting date references for scheduling analysis
Who benefits from this tool?
Project managers tracking deadlines. Legal professionals identifying key dates. Researchers building timelines. Anyone extracting date information from text.
Privacy first: All processing happens in your browser. Your documents never leave your device.
Frequently Asked Questions
We recognize most common formats including: MM/DD/YYYY, DD/MM/YYYY, YYYY-MM-DD, Month DD YYYY, DD Month YYYY, abbreviated months, ordinals (1st, 2nd, 15th), and partial dates (month/year, year only). Both numeric and written formats are supported.
You can set your preferred locale (US=MM/DD, EU=DD/MM) for interpretation. Ambiguous dates are flagged with a warning showing possible interpretations. Context clues in surrounding text may help determine the correct reading.
Yes, we detect relative dates like "tomorrow," "next week," "last Monday," and "in 3 days." These are converted based on a reference date (today by default) or you can specify the reference date for accurate conversion.
After extraction, select your desired output format from options including ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD), US format (MM/DD/YYYY), European format (DD/MM/YYYY), long format (January 15, 2024), or custom patterns.
This tool processes text input. For PDFs, first extract the text content (many PDF tools do this). For images, use OCR software first to convert to text, then paste the result here for date extraction.
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