Possible to do make Batch Sequence Searchable by date?

I want to know if it is possible to edit/create new script to Edit Batch Sequence - Searchable, recognize text Using OCR, but to only do it for a date range? How would I go about doing this.
Right now it takes multiple screens and clicks to make documents searchable, I would like to create a script that tells you the last time you did a batch searchable request, allows you to select a date range, folder would ideally be built in - so I do not have to select it everytime and then on selection of date range, it runs and completes the request. Is this possible? Where do I start?
Thanks,
haleygurl86

Date of what? Do you mean the file's creation date?
If so, that's not possible. You can access the file's creation date in a script, but a script can't OCR a file.
The best way would be to create an input folder and paste into it the files you want to OCR.

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