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Status Needs more information
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 9, 2025

Document extractor needs Chinese documents support on-prem

Idea priority Urgent
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    JOHN PECORARI
    Feb 20, 2026

    @Guest it would be helpful to provide more information before we can decide on a course of action for this idea. For document extraction, there are many aspects that affect the overall quality of extraction.

    1. The language of the documents

    2. The languages supported the chosen LLM support

    3. The language the extractor fields and schema are defined in

    We have seen from limited testing that you can get good results when the language of a document is different than that of the language the extractor fields the schema is defined in.

    I suggest doing some testing with sample documents in the target language(Chinese) first on IBM cloud.

    The list of supported LLMs for the extractor changes over time. I suggest looking through the LLMs in the extractor dropdown to see if any of them specifically mention support for Chinese. If any of them state it explicitly, that's a good one to start with. If none of the LLMs state support for Chinese, it's worth still trying them. In many cases the LLM may have been trained on some Chinese content, but not enough for the model provider to explicitly claim support for a given language. However, depending on the documents being processed the results can still be acceptable.

    Also try creating a schema in English at first, especially if the use case includes processing documents in more than one language. We have seen in testing cases where an schema defined in english does a good job extracting content from documents in a non english language. If this doesnt yield good results, you can try defining the extractor in the language of the target documents. To support this we'll soon be releasing support in the extractor UI where it allows a larger character set for the schema field input which should enable using chinese characters in the field names and descriptions.

    If through testing you are able to identify a schema definition and an LLM that produces good results, please post an update here and we can then look at enabling this capability in the on-prem in a subsequent wxO release.



  • Admin
    Laurent Tillette de Clermont-Tonnerre
    Oct 9, 2025

    Note other related ideas on Chinese language support, please comment with more details, including customer/project name(s) and timeline(s) on any of those you see relevant, thanks!

    We appreciate your input, understanding the impact on ongoing or upcoming customers/projects will help prioritize those improvements, thank you!