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Watson Discovery Service (WDS)

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Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Planned for future release

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Functionality already exists

Increased document splitting limit to 15,000

This enhancement would help customers to use the document splitting feature for very large document corpus and avoid any custom solution. Currently implemented for our client with WEX, with documents being split into up to 15000 segments. Related ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 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...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 2 Not under consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Not under consideration

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries. At the moment, normalization is done from a generic dictionary, and it is important for clients to have normalization done from their dictionaries.
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Not under consideration

Use visual recognition to analyze images in PDF's

When a user indexes a document there could be a large number of images that could have relevant information. As a user I would like to see those images added as metadata to the indexed document to make the WDS service smarter.
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Not under consideration

An API to download the training data applied by WDS

A way to download the training data that has been applied instead of just downloading all the training provided as input to the system ? This is because we need to provide the client with the list of all training that has actually been applied to ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 0 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 1 Planned for future release

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery Service (WDS) 2 Not under consideration