Need a spot to enter a "Date Mask"
Using form extraction with a specific document results in some unfortunate date reading errors. All dates in document are M/D/YYYY, but DataSnipper dates default to D/M/YYYY format until it hits a date that's impossible otherwise. The result is that dates when extracted are in a mixed D/M/Y and M/D/Y format based on what day of the month was read in. To explain another way, while the source document would show February 1, 2023 and February 25, 2023 as 2/1/2023 and 2/25/2023 respectively, DataSnipper will extract them as 1/2/2023 and 2/25/2023.
There are no controls for telling DataSnipper to use one format over another during the extraction template creation. This ultimately makes the form extraction for dates a bad experience with data that's unusable without manual review of every single date against the source document.
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DataSnipper does take into account others dates within the document to inform how to read dates (either D/M/Y or M/D/Y). This does however require a level of confidence to be applied.
Essentially, only if there are a sufficient number of dates of a clear format will DataSnipper apply that format to all unclear formats.
