The phrase "a method for extracting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a specific technique or process used to obtain something from a source, often in scientific or technical contexts.
Example: "The researchers developed a method for extracting DNA from ancient samples to study genetic variations."
Alternatives: "a technique for obtaining" or "a process for retrieving".
He also developed a method for extracting radium (1914) and pioneered its use in cancer treatment.
This led to the problem of finding an economical source of bromine, and here Midgley is credited with developing a method for extracting the element from seawater.
PARIS — French lawmakers opened debate on Tuesday on proposals to ban a method for extracting oil and gas deposits from shale because of environmental concerns, throwing up the first serious stumbling block to firms that want to use the practice.
We develop a method for extracting the desired information from the programs, which are collected automatically. 3.
In this paper we have introduced a method for extracting typical travel times between cities from CDR-based mobility data.
In [10], a method for extracting the fundamental frequency positive-sequence voltage was proposed based on the simple mathematical transformations.
This volatility has attracted a large amount of interest to the compound in an attempt to devise a simple method for extracting neptunium from spent nuclear power station fuel rods.
Around 130 years earlier, the French anatomist Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne had developed a technique called muscle biopsy, a surgical method for extracting tiny pieces of tissue from patients for further examination.
The water tank, a common method for extracting confessions, is a seriously questionable technique in any scenario, but especially against the peaceful Tolkienists.
The Bio-LDA model provides an unsupervised method for extracting an interpretable representation from a collection of documents.
We propose a new method for extracting elliptic arcs from a spatially connected point sequence.
