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Watson Discovery

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Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Watson Discovery v2 connectors for private/protected websites should support redirection support other Authenication mechanisms

Customer has a private / protected website that they want to crawl using a Discovery v2 IBM connector for web crawling. The private / protected website has redirection to login page and authentication is using Azure Multi Factor authentication. To...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Configure level for search

Hello, I need to limit the web crawler search to the first level, but there isn't any way to configure the search level
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Detect duplicates

Hello, I have a Web Crawler and I need to exclude duplicates from search results
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add Table Understanding as a feature for WDS on Cloud/Cloud Pak for Data

This feature, where customers will be able to get direct answers within tables, aligns with the vision of intelligent document processing and will enable them to easily extract exact answers and find hidden insights whenever their data includes lo...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

The attributes after digestion of document for different connectors should be same

If you use IBM crawler today to crawl sharepoint, salesforce or public sites, the attributes in the document are not standard. At least the attributes in the query result. Take for example the URL property for public site, I need to read in metada...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Improve Smart Document Uderstanding processing time

Real-life scenario: the user uploads a document and the extracted info are needed as input for another tool or ML model (real time scoring is needed). The customer experience suffers from the waiting time. The processing time of one document is to...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Ability to clone a project

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to clone a project in Watson Discovery. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, there was the possibility to clone a project (c...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration