Does BIRT supportsText Analytics?

ngvenkates

Hi,

I am new to BIRT. Can some one please tell me does BIRT supports generating report from unstructered data like file contents, wiki pages etc.?

Thanks,
Venkatesh

Virgil Dodson

Hi Venkatesh,<br />
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BIRT has support for a Scripted Data Source. With the scripted data source, you can do whatever you need to do in Java or Javascript and then return data for the report to display. Some examples I've seen were using the scripted data source to list the directory contents of the MyPictures folder (enclosed)... or a simple Java class using the e.Spreadsheet Engine APIs that listed the contents from an Excel spreadsheet.<br />
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You can find a simple Scripted Data Source Example at <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.com/devshare/designing-birt-reports/255-birt-scripted-datasource-example-design/'>http://www.birt-exchange.com/devshare/designing-birt-reports/255-birt-scripted-datasource-example-design/</a&gt;