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This work focuses on a fundamental problem in modern numerical rela- tivity: Extracting gravitational waves in a coordinate and gauge independent way to nourish a unique and physically meaningful expression. We adopt a new procedure to extract the physically relevant quantities from the numerically evolved space-time. We introduce a general canonical form for the Weyl scalars in terms of fundamental space-time invariants, and demonstrate how this ap- proach supersedes the explicit definition of a particular null tetrad. As a second objective, we further characterize a particular sub-class of tetrads in the Newman-Penrose formalism: the transverse frames. We establish a new connection between the two major frames for wave extraction: namely the Gram-Schmidt frame, and the quasi-Kinnersley frame. Finally, we study how the expressions for the Weyl scalars depend on the tetrad we choose, in a space-time containing distorted black holes. We apply our newly developed method and demonstrate the advantage of our approach, compared with methods commonly used in numerical relativity.