# Recognize entities separated by a dash

Thanks [@netcarver](https://forum.rasa.com/u/netcarver), I had a similar problem and adding a custom component at the start of the NLU pipeline worked for me! My problem was to update the input by replacing specified dimension by the word dimension: Please resize my image to 640x480 …to become… Please resize my image to dimension.

# Introduce yourself!

Hi, I’m Stephane Menard from Montreal. I’m looking to build Conversational AI for software products. Thanks to the RASA team for this great project!