The universal recognizer sends one input through several local detectors instead of asking you to choose a country or number class first. It currently covers identity numbers, international phone numbers, payment cards, IBANs, tax/business identifiers, and parcel or postal tracking numbers. One string can produce more than one candidate.

The confidence value only ranks how closely the input resembles a format. A numeric string can plausibly resemble both a payment card and a carrier number, so the tool keeps alternatives instead of pretending it already knows the real-world purpose.

1. 01Paste a number or identifier; spaces, parentheses and hyphens are normalized by the relevant detector.
2. 02Review candidate types, structural validation and fields that can be safely derived locally.
3. 03Open a specialized tool for deeper parsing, or explicitly open an official external service when live status is required.

Every identifier detector returns the same candidate shape: family, kind, confidence, validation, fields and suggested actions. Specialized tools only add a scope to the same recognition function. For example, the IBAN page shows bank-account candidates; when an input clearly belongs to another family, it can recommend a more appropriate tool.

The design deliberately does not map language to country and does not read IP address or geolocation. Language affects copy, result ordering and whether a locale-specific deep page is offered.

• A format match is not proof that a number, account, identity or shipment is real or currently valid.
• Numeric-only formats collide most often; lower-confidence candidates need context.
• Local detectors implement rules with stable public documentation. Uncertain checksum formulas are deliberately omitted.
• Live VAT, shipment, account or identity status belongs to authoritative external services and is never queried in the background.
• Identity documents, cards, phone numbers and bank accounts are sensitive; prefer test data or properly authorized data.

• Identify an unfamiliar number before choosing a tool.
• Detect structured identifiers while cleaning imported data, logs or form submissions.
• Paste a value into home search and jump directly to the best specialized tool.
• Add new country rules behind one detector contract without duplicating the whole page.

Recognition and validation run locally in the browser by default. A value is sent outside Toolun only after you explicitly open an external carrier, VIES or other lookup service. Do not paste unrelated third-party identity, card or other sensitive numbers.