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[Feature Request] Allow numeric search independent of spaces/punctuation
Source: paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx#12450 · opened by @kevhof
Description
I often need to search for long numbers in document titles or OCR content, but the stored format may vary:
• 7564839201
• 756 483 9201
• 75 64 83 92 01
Currently, document search does not seem to handle this in a space-insensitive way, so users have to try many manual variants with OR.
Would it be possible to support normalized numeric search, so a query like 7564839201 could also match equivalent representations with spaces, dots, or dashes?
This would be especially useful for:
• invoice/reference numbers
• account/reference numbers
• social security / insurance identifiers
Other
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I often need to search for long numbers in document titles or OCR content, but the stored format may vary:
• 7564839201
• 756 483 9201
• 75 64 83 92 01
Currently, document search does not seem to handle this in a space-insensitive way, so users have to try many manual variants with OR.
Would it be possible to support normalized numeric search, so a query like 7564839201 could also match equivalent representations with spaces, dots, or dashes?
This would be especially useful for:
• invoice/reference numbers
• account/reference numbers
• social security / insurance identifiers
Other
_No response_
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