Using the GroupDocs.Metadata search engine you can extract desired metadata properties from files of different types. You don’t need to worry about the exact file format and metadata standards it can deal with. The same code will work for all supported formats in the same way. Most commonly used metadata properties are marked with tags that allow searching them across all supported files in various metadata packages. All tags defined in GroupDocs....+date.*)$" , Pattern . CASE_INSENSITIVE...) { Date date = candidate . getValue (). toClass ( Date . class...