The invention discloses a new process for extracting lactic acid from lactic acid fermentation liquid. The process flow comprises the following steps: preparing the fermentation liquid, deproteinizing, removing bacteria, decolorizing with activated carbon, performing plate and frame filtration, filtering with an inorganic ceramic membrane, cooling by a plate type heat exchanger, filtering with an organic nano-filtration membrane, concentrating and performing primary crystallization, performing centrifugal drying, performing resolvation, performing acidolysis, passing through an ion exchange resin column and concentrating to obtain a finished product. The process flow performs membrane filtration twice, namely the filtration with the inorganic ceramic membrane and the filtration with the organic ceramic membrane, wherein the filtration with the inorganic ceramic membrane can remove small insoluble solid impurities, bacteria, colloidal substances, macromolecular sugars and other impurities in filtrate; the filtration with the organic nano-filtration membrane can remove low-molecular weight sugars and multivalent ions in the filtrate; and the purity of the finally prepared finished product lactic acid is as high as 95%-98%, the crystallization yield of the lactic acid is improved from original 70% to above 85%, and the production cost is greatly reduced.