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# Eduction

Eduction identifies and extracts entities from text. An entity is a word, phrase, or block of information, such as a person's name, an address, a date, or a telephone number.

Eduction includes a comprehensive set of predefined entities, for many languages and geographical locations, so that you can extract names, credit card numbers, addresses, and so on. You can also extend Eduction by defining your own entities.

You can use Eduction to:

- extract entities from documents, and add them to metadata fields, before the documents are added to your IDOL index. For example, you might extract company names from your document content and tag the documents with these names. In this scenario, the document content might be the body of an e-mail, the content of a PDF file, or text from a web page. Tagging the documents would allow a front-end application to present a list of companies, so that your users can filter their search results based on the companies that are mentioned.
- perform sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis identifies positive and negative sentiment in text. You could, for example, extract positive and negative comments from product reviews.
- identify personally identifiable information (PII) in your data, so that you can manage this data and conform to regulation such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- redact sensitive information in text or IDOL documents, so that you can conform to data protection standards and use your records for multiple purposes.

There are several ways in which you can use Eduction:

- CFS and NiFi Ingest. Eduction is commonly used to enrich documents during the ingestion process, before they are added to the IDOL index. For example, you can extract entities and tag the documents so that is easier to find documents related to a specific person, place, or subject. To run Eduction as part of the ingestion process, use either Connector Framework Server (CFS) or IDOL NiFi Ingest.
- Eduction Server. You can use the Eduction Server to extract entities, redact information, and perform sentiment analysis on plain text.
- Build a custom application using the Eduction SDK. Micro Focus provides Eduction SDKs for C and Java, so that you can include Eduction in your own applications.

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