Question: select one out of multiple date formats
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:40 pm
Hazel is a wonderful app which made my life a lot easier and 'complicated'.
I am struggling with something that I would have not had to, if I did not know Hazel.
With recent purchase of a nice scanner and its built-in OCR function, (oh, I love this ScanSnap, too), I tried to scan all my receipts. Since having found out that Hazel can pick up the matched contents from the scanned file, I wanted to put purchase date into the file name automatically.
The problem is that merchants/ vendors use various formats of date, for example, 01-03-2014, 1.3.2014, 01.03.14, 1/03/2014, 01/03/14, 2014-03-01, 03-01-2014, Mar.01.2014 etc.
Like most people, I'd like to put one and consistent format of date for naming my files.
ex. receiptx_yummyrestaurant_paris_2014-0301-1845.pdf
My question is how I can make a rule so that Hazel could put the specific date format into my scanned file.
I'd appreciate if anyone can help me.
I am struggling with something that I would have not had to, if I did not know Hazel.
With recent purchase of a nice scanner and its built-in OCR function, (oh, I love this ScanSnap, too), I tried to scan all my receipts. Since having found out that Hazel can pick up the matched contents from the scanned file, I wanted to put purchase date into the file name automatically.
The problem is that merchants/ vendors use various formats of date, for example, 01-03-2014, 1.3.2014, 01.03.14, 1/03/2014, 01/03/14, 2014-03-01, 03-01-2014, Mar.01.2014 etc.
Like most people, I'd like to put one and consistent format of date for naming my files.
ex. receiptx_yummyrestaurant_paris_2014-0301-1845.pdf
My question is how I can make a rule so that Hazel could put the specific date format into my scanned file.
I'd appreciate if anyone can help me.