If you want to exclude numbers that are contained within words, such as bar1 or aa1bb, then add word boundaries \b to any of the regex based answers. For example:
Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\b-?\\d+\\b");
Matcher m = p.matcher("9There 9are more9 th9an -2 and less than 12 numbers here9");
while (m.find()) {
System.out.println(m.group());
}
displays:
2
12