I’m using datascanner to scan timestamps. I seem to have a few issues that are affecting my ability to use it properly. First if I set the text type to datetimeduration this seems like I would be my preferred option however sometimes the scanner locks only on the date portion of the timestamp and not the date/time combined. Any way to tell it that it should look for the time also?
because that didn’t work I just set it to scan “all”. Then I use regex to look in the larger amount of text for the timestamp format I’m looking for. My next issue is perhaps due to fonts but quite often : and 3 gets read as 8 so then I end up with invalid timestamps due to getting a timestamp where either the colons are 8 or there’s something like 85 minutes instead of 35. Seems like if visionkit had an idea of the font classes I was primarily looking at perhaps it could scan with better reliability. Any way to do that or any way to suggest for the future maybe?
I’ve done a little of my own processing but I feel like I’m trying to apply multiple band aids rather than just solving the initial problem.