diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index 37b2610c1..b5f012bdc 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -200,7 +200,10 @@ class RasterisedDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
         return text
 
     def get_date(self):
-        text = self.get_text()
+        try:
+            text = self.get_text()
+        except ParseError as e:
+            return None
 
         # This regular expression will try to find dates in the document at
         # hand and will match the following formats: