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Watson Discovery

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Filter by multiple facets values via Content Miner UI

Currently, when we want narrow down our analysis using the value of multiple facets, we need to select each facet value one by one on the Content Miner UI, This can be very cumbersome if we have a large number of facet values. So, we would like to...
9 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

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. ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Quantum battery manufacturing by high vapor pressured elements

high pressurized vapor quantum battery manufacturing using suitable element in ionic or non ionic state
10 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

manufacturing of quantum battery using water or halogen gas as medium using high frequency short wave as charger with proper charging material usage

Using either Sodium, Silicon, Aluminum, Calcium, Lithium etc in vapor-particle charging material form charging using high frequency short waves and water as a conducting medium. we can produce more battery with less charging material content (prec...
10 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

allow calling original file from WD when integrating with WA

Customer wanted to call original file(e.g. pdf) from WD from WA, as they want end-user directly review full content of original file(e.g, pdf) including images by click URL in WA.
11 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

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.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 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.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under 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...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration