About the Remove Numbers From Text
Sharing a support ticket, a log excerpt or a chat transcript with somebody outside the team usually means the order numbers, account IDs and dates should not travel with it. This tool deletes every run of digits and leaves the rest of each line exactly as it was, so the record stays readable while the identifying figures go.
Only ASCII digits are matched. Order 8841 shipped 2026-09-05 comes back as Order shipped --, separators still in place, which is often what you want because the shape of the record survives for pattern spotting. Digits inside words go too, so COVID19 loses its year and h264 becomes a bare h. Numbers spelled out as words are letters and are untouched, and digits from other numbering systems, such as Arabic-Indic or Devanagari, are not ASCII and survive.
This is not anonymisation on its own, since names, addresses and free text remain; pair it with a proper redaction pass before anything leaves the building. The double spaces left where numbers used to be tidy up with Remove Extra Spaces. To collect the figures rather than destroy them, Extract Numbers lists them, and Remove Letters does the opposite job.
How to use
- Paste the text.
- Copy the result with digits removed.
- Use Extract Numbers to keep the numbers instead.
Common questions
- Are number words like "three" removed?
- No. Only digit characters are removed; words are letters and stay.
- Does it remove numbers inside dates?
- Yes, the digits go, leaving the separators such as hyphens.
- Can I keep only the numbers?
- Use Remove Letters, or Extract Numbers to list them.