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The Date formatter converts a date into ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DD), whichever way it is written in the document. Dates written in other languages are recognized too, so 15. mars 2024 and 5 janvier 2024 both work.

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Options

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Ambiguous dates

A date like 03/04/2024 is the 3rd of April in Europe and the 4th of March in the US. The setting decides which one it is:
Auto detect currently reads ambiguous numeric dates month-first, the same as Month first (US). If your documents are European, choose Day first (EU) explicitly rather than relying on auto-detection.
Dates that are not ambiguous are unaffected by this setting. 15.03.2024 and 2024-03-15 both become 2024-03-15 whichever option you pick, because no valid month is 15.

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Supported languages

Dates are first read as English, then tried against Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese (simplified and traditional).

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When it fails

If no date can be read from the value, the field is cleared and the formatter reports Unable to parse <value> as a date, sending the document to human review. An empty value is left empty without an error.