---
title: Pasteboard detection patterns
framework: appkit
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: appkit/nspasteboard-detection-patterns
---

# Pasteboard detection patterns

Common types of data that the data detection system matches for a pasteboard.

## Topics

### Email and web values

- [emailAddresses](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/emailaddresses.md)
- [links](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/links.md)
- [probableWebSearch](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/probablewebsearch.md)
- [probableWebURL](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/probableweburl.md)

### Contact values

- [phoneNumbers](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/phonenumbers.md)
- [postalAddresses](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/postaladdresses.md)

### Calendar values

- [calendarEvents](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/calendarevents.md)

### Numeric values

- [moneyAmounts](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/moneyamounts.md)
- [number](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/number.md)

### Transportation-related values

- [flightNumbers](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/flightnumbers.md)
- [shipmentTrackingNumbers](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/shipmenttrackingnumbers.md)

### Patterns

- [patterns](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues/patterns.md)

### Pattern type

- [NSPasteboard.DetectedValues](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues.md)

## See Also

### Detecting patterns and metadata in pasteboard items

- [detectedPatterns(for:)](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedpatterns(for:).md)
- [detectedValues(for:)](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues(for:).md)
- [NSPasteboard.DetectedValues](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedvalues.md)
- [detectedMetadata(for:)](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedmetadata(for:).md)
- [NSPasteboard.DetectedMetadata](appkit/nspasteboard/detectedmetadata.md)
- [Pasteboard detection metadata types](appkit/nspasteboard-detection-metadata-types.md)