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Date extraction - pattern matchin

asked on March 20, 2018

Hello, I am new to QF and running version 10.1 and would know the best way to extract a short date on documents that have this common fields (CHECK DATE)

 

your assistance is appreciated.

 

Thanks

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replied on March 20, 2018

You could start my looking for something with this pattern.

 

\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}

 

A word of caution with finding dates - OCRing can be tricky if the quality of the image is poor.  I have had many issues where the / in the date gets OCRed as a 1; 9s as 0s; etc.

 

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replied on March 20, 2018

Thanks Jennifer for you quick reply. The images are good quality. Will give it a try. Thanks again smiley

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