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# Type-specific properties of the Date element

> Configure the Date search element to find dates with various formats, day/month/year orderings, separators, and language support for spelled-out months.

The **Date** element has the following properties in the **What to search for** section:

## Date format properties

* **Date format** specifies the entire date format: Day, month, year; Month, day, year; Year, day, month; Year, month, day.
* **Day format** specifies the day value format: Single digit, Two digits.
* **Month format** specifies the month value format: Single digit, Two digits, Word.
* **Month languages** specifies languages that can be used to write the month. This field is only available if the Word value is specified for **Month format**. The following languages are supported: English, Hungarian, Dutch, Greek, Danish, Spanish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Turkish, Finnish, Czech, Swedish, Estonian, French, Japanese, Ukrainian, and Russian.
* **Year format** specifies the year value format: Two digits, Four digits.
* **From** and **To** specifies an interval for the date. When setting a date interval, you can select the current date by using the Today option in the date interval form.
* **Separators** are characters that may be used to separate the various date components.

<Note>
  One or several values can be selected in the **Date format**, **Day format**, **Month format**, and **Year format** fields.
</Note>

## Advanced properties

* **Max. space length** allows specifying the maximum length of the space inside the detected object.
* **Text orientation** allows specifying the orientation of the text you're looking for. By default, the activity only looks for text oriented horizontally and won't formulate a hypothesis for rotated text. If you need to find the text rotated in a specific way and ignore the text written in any other direction, you should select only the **Clockwise** or the **Counter-clockwise** option. To find text regardless of its orientation, you should enable all available options.

To display advanced properties, click the advanced mode icon on the **Properties** pane.