diff --git a/src/documents/parsers.py b/src/documents/parsers.py
index c44e4c5bf..c28b31a6b 100644
--- a/src/documents/parsers.py
+++ b/src/documents/parsers.py
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
 import logging
 import shutil
 import tempfile
+import re
 
 from django.conf import settings
 
+# This regular expression will try to find dates in the document at
+# hand and will match the following formats:
+# - XX.YY.ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
+# - XX/YY/ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
+# - XX-YY-ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
+# - XX. MONTH ZZZZ with XX being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
+# - MONTH ZZZZ, with ZZZZ being 4 digits
+# - MONTH XX, ZZZZ with XX being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 4 digits
+pattern = re.compile(
+    r'\b([0-9]{1,2})[\.\/-]([0-9]{1,2})[\.\/-]([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2})\b|' +
+    r'\b([0-9]{1,2}[\. ]+[^ ]{3,9} ([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2}))\b|' +
+    r'\b([^\W\d_]{3,9} [0-9]{1,2}, ([0-9]{4}))\b|' +
+    r'\b([^\W\d_]{3,9} [0-9]{4})\b')
+
 
 class ParseError(Exception):
     pass
diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index add65985a..f0690e5bc 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ from pyocr.libtesseract.tesseract_raw import \
 from pyocr.tesseract import TesseractError
 
 import pdftotext
-from documents.parsers import DocumentParser, ParseError
+from documents.parsers import DocumentParser, ParseError, pattern
 
 from .languages import ISO639
 
@@ -210,20 +210,6 @@ class RasterisedDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
         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:
-        # - XX.YY.ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - XX/YY/ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - XX-YY-ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - XX. MONTH ZZZZ with XX being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - MONTH ZZZZ, with ZZZZ being 4 digits
-        # - MONTH XX, ZZZZ with XX being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 4 digits
-        pattern = re.compile(
-            r'\b([0-9]{1,2})[\.\/-]([0-9]{1,2})[\.\/-]([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2})\b|' +
-            r'\b([0-9]{1,2}[\. ]+[^ ]{3,9} ([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2}))\b|' +
-            r'\b([^\W\d_]{3,9} [0-9]{1,2}, ([0-9]{4}))\b|' +
-            r'\b([^\W\d_]{3,9} [0-9]{4})\b')
-
         # Iterate through all regex matches and try to parse the date
         for m in re.finditer(pattern, text):
             datestring = m.group(0)
diff --git a/src/paperless_text/parsers.py b/src/paperless_text/parsers.py
index 77f7a4118..50c341769 100644
--- a/src/paperless_text/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_text/parsers.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import subprocess
 import dateparser
 from django.conf import settings
 
-from documents.parsers import DocumentParser, ParseError
+from documents.parsers import DocumentParser, ParseError, pattern
 
 
 class TextDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ class TextDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
     This parser directly parses a text document (.txt, .md, or .csv)
     """
 
-
     CONVERT = settings.CONVERT_BINARY
     THREADS = int(settings.OCR_THREADS) if settings.OCR_THREADS else None
     UNPAPER = settings.UNPAPER_BINARY
@@ -94,20 +93,6 @@ class TextDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
         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:
-        # - XX.YY.ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - XX/YY/ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - XX-YY-ZZZZ with XX + YY being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - XX. MONTH ZZZZ with XX being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 2 or 4 digits
-        # - MONTH ZZZZ, with ZZZZ being 4 digits
-        # - MONTH XX, ZZZZ with XX being 1 or 2 and ZZZZ being 4 digits
-        pattern = re.compile(
-            r'\b([0-9]{1,2})[\.\/-]([0-9]{1,2})[\.\/-]([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2})\b|' +
-            r'\b([0-9]{1,2}[\. ]+[^ ]{3,9} ([0-9]{4}|[0-9]{2}))\b|' +
-            r'\b([^\W\d_]{3,9} [0-9]{1,2}, ([0-9]{4}))\b|' +
-            r'\b([^\W\d_]{3,9} [0-9]{4})\b')
-
         # Iterate through all regex matches and try to parse the date
         for m in re.finditer(pattern, text):
             datestring = m.group(0)