The phrase "able to extract a" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the capability to retrieve or obtain something, often in a technical or analytical context.
Example: "The software is able to extract a significant amount of data from the database for analysis."
Alternatives: "capable of retrieving a" or "able to obtain a".
Britain would have been able to extract a price for allowing the 19 eurozone nations to integrate further.
But chipmakers are unlikely to be able to extract a disproportionate rent or restrict supply or even to try.
"We have just been able to extract a useable audio data file," BEA director Remi Jouty told a news conference at the agency's headquarters outside Paris.
It didn't, as far as I could discern, belong to a city-wide system, so even those who were able to extract a bike couldn't stray far from the area immediately along the river.
Tuesday's episode of the mother-daughter series, during which Rory (Alexis Bledel, above), was able to extract a commitment from her caddish boyfriend (Matt Czuchry), brought in 5.4 million viewers.
In return for supporting the minority Labour government of James Callaghan, Steel was able to extract a number of concessions, including an agreement to consult the Liberals on legislation prior to its presentation in Parliament.
The first one ("Position parser script" in Figure 1) is a MATLAB â"‡ script able to extract an array with the data to be transmitted.
For example, an RE system has to be able to extract an employment-organization relation (defined by ACE) between "CEO" and "Microsoft" in "the CEO of Microsoft" [94].
We show that we were able to extract an in vivo constitutive law of the brain elasticity: thus for the first time, measurements are carried out per-operatively on the patient, just before the resection of the brain parenchyma.
Pig Farmer had deleted the license number from the photo, but he kept the car waxed and shiny and Atkinson was able to extract an image of his target by taking a photo of his car with a Sony digital camera using a flash in bright sunlight.
Authors in this meta-analysis were able to extract an appreciable frequency of minor adverse events.
