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hi all,
I scanned and OCR-ed a utilities bill and want to use part of the text as the filename of this document.

The text I want to use is the bill's period, example: "2015 March"
Here's an example of a piece of the OCR-ed PDF with the needed text string:

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Resibu Aqualectra
11414527 2015 March
673.66 673.66
...


The string that I'm looking for comes directly after "11414527", which will always show on my bill as it is my account number.

How can I extract "2015 March" from the text?
I need to look for "11414527" and then select the text immediately after that.
All help is greatly appreciated!

If there is only one date in the file, you can use a date attribute and just match that date. If there are too many dates and their positions are variable, then using any surrounding context, like the account number will help.

...then using any surrounding context...

Yes that's exactly what I'd like to do, but how?

Enter the text into the pattern, like "11414527 (• your date attribute)". With a pattern like that, the date would have to appear after that account number.

Enter the text into the pattern, like "11414527 (• your date attribute)".

Where in Hazel should I do this?

Since you are looking for it in the contents, you probably want to have a condition like "Contents contain match". Search the help for "match patterns" for more info on using patterns.