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# Date

> Configure Date element properties including language settings, date formats, and quality parameters

| Parameter                                    | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| :------------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Void AddLanguage( String )`                 | Adds a language to be used for detecting dates to the list of already specified language(s). The parameter should be a string specifying any of the supported languages: "English", "Czech", "Danish", "Dutch", "Estonian", "Finnish", "French", "German", "Greek", "Hungarian", "Italian", "Latvian", "Lithuanian", "Norwegian", "Polish", "Portuguese", "Russian", "Spanish", "Swedish", "Turkish". |
| `Void DateFormat( DateFormats )`             | Date format. **Example:** Instruct the program that the date should be of the month, day, year format `DateFormat: MonthDayYear;`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| `Void DayFormat( DayFormatVariants )`        | Day format.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| `Void IgnoreAccents( Logic value = true )`   | Specifies whether diacritics should to be taken into account when looking for names of months. By default, diacritics are ignored.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| `Void Language( String )`                    | Specifies the language in which the name of the month will be written.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
| `Void MaxDate( String )`                     | A string in the format DD/MM/YYYY which sets the Date parameter. Specifies a time period: DateTimePicker1... DateTimePicker2... **Example:** The code below tells the program that the date lies between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2004 (format is irrelevant). `MinDate: "01/01/2000"; MaxDate: "31/12/2004";`                                                                                |
| `Void MaxXOutsidePart( Real )`               | Specifies the part of the character that may extend beyond the search area horizontally. The part of the character is specified by a number from 0 to 1. Those characters are included in the hypothesis, that have the specified or smaller part outside the search area.                                                                                                                            |
| `Void MaxYOutsidePart( Real )`               | Specifies the part of the character that may extend beyond the search area vertically. The part of the character is specified by a number from 0 to 1. Those characters are included in the hypothesis, that have the specified or smaller part outside the search area.                                                                                                                              |
| `Void MaxRelativeGapInLine( Real )`          | The maximum distance between neighboring characters expressed as a percentage of the line height.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| `Void MinDate( String )`                     | A string in the format DD/MM/YYYY which sets the Date parameter.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `Void MinQuality( Real )`                    | Sets the minimum quality of the hypothesis.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| `Void MonthFormat( MonthFormatVariants )`    | Specifies the month format. **Example:** The code below tells the program that the month in the date may be written either as a word or as a two-digit number. `MonthFormat: DigitsWithLeadingZeroMonth + WordMonth;`                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| `Void Separators( String )`                  | Specifies the possible date separators. **Example:** The code below tells the program that numbers in the date may be separated by dots (.) or forward slashes (/). `Separators: "./";`                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| `Void YearFormat( YearFormatVariants )`      | Specifies the year format.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| `Void AllowedTextRotations( TextRotations )` | Specifies a set of orientations of the recognized text in which an element search is allowed.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |