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Watson Discovery

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support SAML for web crawler

The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Display document status for collection on Watson Discovery UI

Currently there is no way to track document progress for a collection on Watson Discovery UI. Sometimes documents are stuck for hours and there is no way to figure out what is happening in the background. I think there should be a very simple and ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Add ability to recognize hand written text and fillable PDFs using SDU

SDU works really well for documents with printed text, but it doesn't recognize text in hand-written/hand-filled documents or forms. It also doesn't recognize text in fillable PDFs. It would be nice to have SDU extract text from fillable PDFs and ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Remove or Strip HTML tags during ingestion

Affects both ingestion and document conversion / segmentation. Benefits usage of the ingested content making it consumable in a more basic format. Original customer use case was to not only remove / strip HTML but also segment based on HTML head...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Functionality already exists

Ability to translate document language on ingestion

This will provide the capability to select the language that the user wants in the index. Since the documents can be split/ retained as is in WDS and has the full text, there should be an out of the box integration with language translator to tran...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow querying without expansion

Today, when expansions are defined for a collection, the expansions are always applied. However, there are some cases where one would like to submit a query without having it expanded, like a "do not expand" flag. A concrete case is the following:...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

UI and document should support Chinese Simplified

There are new customers in China for WD. We request WD UI and documents support Chinese Simplified. Thanks.
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Bring back Host Rank to enable filtering out unreliable sources

Host Rank allowed for filtering out sources with a low score. Without it, offensive, inappropriate, and fake sources creep into the News query results. The current mechanism of submitting individual source complaints is ineffective.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Overlap of Left and right view of a page in SDU training

While tranining the SDU , a page is shown on left side with actual text and right side with boxes placed instead of text and coloured by appropriate fields but initially the color of text all over. In a dense document, it becomes difficult for use...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration