Paperless-ngx for US dates
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LazyTech8315 · 2023-11-11 22:39

Please direct me if there is a better place to ask.

I have installed Paperless-NGX as an app on TrueNAS Scale and I can
tell I'm really going to like having it. So far I've scanned in about
820 documents (and shredded 90% of them!) However, as I'm reviewing
them as part of the workflow I see lots of dates messed up. It's
configured for US English and the localization is using MM/DD/YYYY as
the format when displaying dates but OCR is reading them as
DD/MM/YYYY.

When the date has a spelled out month, like June 4, 2023, it is
entered into the database and correctly displayed as 6/4/2023.
However, if OCR sees 6/4/2023 on the document, it records it
incorrectly and localization displays it as 4/6/2023. It gets worse if
it sees 10/25/2023 and doesn't even recognize it as a date, since
there is no 25th month! LOL

Has anyone been able to change this behavior? Can the Kubernetes
version be modified for my use?

Thank you!