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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Watson Discovery
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2022

Skipping processing of image files (JPG/GIF/PNG/image PDF)

Watson Discovery ingests a number of file types, including image types like JPG/GIF/PNG/image PDF. When OCR is switched off, Discovery still processes these files and captures its metadata. Our client wants to skip image files completely and also doesn't want the metadata of image files in their indexes. There is no way to skip image files completely when turning off the OCR capabilities. The consequence is that, with millions of image files in their data stores, processing of the desired text documents takes a disproportional amount of time without a priori data cleaning. They'd like to have an option to exclude the processing of image files completely.
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)