The embodiment of the application discloses a method and device for extracting information. One specific embodiment of the method includes the following steps: receiving and parsing voice informationof a user to generate text information corresponding to the voice information; extracting contact information to be identified from the text information; acquiring an address book of the user, whereinthe address book includes at least two pieces of contact information; generating at least two types of information for matching according to the contact information to be identified; for each information for matching in the at least two types of information for matching, determining the matching degree between the contact information to be identified and each contact information in the at least two pieces of contact information according to the information for matching; and extracting the contact information matched with the contact information to be identified from the address book accordingto the determined matching degree. According to the embodiment, the accuracy of the extracted contact information can be improved.