Sunday, August 17, 2014
For quite sometime I have been playing with JS libraries and Visuaforce to build some useful UI components, Textscanner is one of the component that has emerged from the same experiment.
What is Textscanner ?
Textscanner is Visualforce implementation of Knwl.js natural language reading library. You can read about the same here https://github.com/loadfive/Knwl.js . What Texscanner does is wrap this nice little library with the help of visualforce components.
What it can do ?
Textscanner with the help of Knwl.js can scan through the passed text and can extract important information and spit them out in a nice little interface
- Phone Numbers
- Links
- Emotion
- Date
- Time
- Places
- Hastags
How to use it ?
The syntax is very simple,
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| <c:textscanner value="{!TEXT_TO_SCAN}"/> |
Example
Support Center / Call center executive has to interact with many customers daily and they really need to have the key information handy from a lengthy description. So solve this we can create an inline VF page CaseScanner in our case using TextScanner and include the same in Case Detail page layout.
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| <apex:page standardController="Case" sidebar="false"> | |
| <c:textscanner value="{!Case.Description}"/> | |
| </apex:page> |
Where can you use it ?
- Extracting notes from lengthy text
- Telephone transcripts
- Case comments
- Product Descriptions
- Descriptions
