diff --git a/util/README b/util/README
index 725bef4525..0f0a169b39 100644
--- a/util/README
+++ b/util/README
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ cmdline and see if any parsing errors are reported.
 
 Internationalisation
 
-extract.php - extracts translatable strings from our project files. It
+php bin/console extract - extracts translatable strings from our project files. It
 currently doesn't pick up strings in other libraries we might be using such as
 the HTML parsers.
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ e.g.
 
 Plural
 
-The L10n::tt() function supports plural form. Script extract.php write this in
+The L10n::tt() function supports plural form. The extract command writes this in
 strings.php as an array, one string for every plural form language supports:
 
 $a->string["%d message sent"] = Array(
diff --git a/util/extract.php b/util/extract.php
deleted file mode 100755
index 18fbb9df00..0000000000
--- a/util/extract.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,100 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env php
-<?php
-
-/**
- * @file util/extract.php
- *
- * Extracts translation strings from the Friendica project's files to be exported
- * to Transifex for translation.
- *
- * Outputs a PHP file with language strings used by Friendica
- */
-
-$s = '<?php' . PHP_EOL;
-$s .= '
-function string_plural_select($n){
-	return ($n != 1);
-}
-
-';
-
-$arr = [];
-
-$files = ['index.php', 'boot.php'];
-$files = array_merge(
-	$files,
-	glob('mod/*'),
-	glob('include/*'),
-	glob('addon/*/*'),
-	glob_recursive('src')
-);
-
-foreach ($files as $file) {
-	$str = file_get_contents($file);
-
-	$pat = '|L10n::t\(([^\)]*+)[\)]|';
-	$patt = '|L10n::tt\(([^\)]*+)[\)]|';
-
-	preg_match_all($pat, $str, $matches);
-	preg_match_all($patt, $str, $matchestt);
-
-	if (count($matches) || count($matchestt)) {
-		$s .= '// ' . $file . PHP_EOL;
-	}
-
-	if (count($matches)) {
-		foreach ($matches[1] as $long_match) {
-			$match_arr = preg_split('/(?<=[\'"])\s*,/', $long_match);
-			$match = $match_arr[0];
-			if (!in_array($match, $arr)) {
-				if (substr($match, 0, 1) == '$') {
-					continue;
-				}
-
-				$arr[] = $match;
-
-				$s .= '$a->strings[' . $match . '] = ' . $match . ';' . "\n";
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	if (count($matchestt)) {
-		foreach ($matchestt[1] as $match) {
-			$matchtkns = preg_split("|[ \t\r\n]*,[ \t\r\n]*|", $match);
-			if (count($matchtkns) == 3 && !in_array($matchtkns[0], $arr)) {
-				if (substr($matchtkns[1], 0, 1) == '$') {
-					continue;
-				}
-
-				$arr[] = $matchtkns[0];
-
-				$s .= '$a->strings[' . $matchtkns[0] . "] = array(\n";
-				$s .= "\t0 => " . $matchtkns[0] . ",\n";
-				$s .= "\t1 => " . $matchtkns[1] . ",\n";
-				$s .= ");\n";
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-$s .= '// Timezones' . PHP_EOL;
-
-$zones = timezone_identifiers_list();
-foreach ($zones as $zone) {
-	$s .= '$a->strings[\'' . $zone . '\'] = \'' . $zone . '\';' . "\n";
-}
-
-echo $s;
-
-function glob_recursive($path) {
-	$dir_iterator = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path);
-	$iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator($dir_iterator, RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
-
-	$return = [];
-	foreach ($iterator as $file) {
-		if ($file->getBasename() != '.' && $file->getBasename() != '..') {
-			$return[] = $file->getPathname();
-		}
-	}
-
-	return $return;
-}