About Eduction

Micro Focus IDOL 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:

Micro Focus IDOL allows you to use Eduction in several ways:

For more information about which method to use, see Decide Which Eduction Product to Use.