IBM Word Cloud Generator

IBM Word Cloud Generator is an application written in Java that can quickly and easily produce an image file beholding the most common words in a supplied text file aligned in various ways to fit in an organized layout.

First things first, “word clouds” give more preponderant prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Also known as tag clouds or even weighted lists in the field of visual design, these so-called word clouds are relatively new in the community, with the first ones creeping in at the start of this millenium, as Web 2.0 websites were being brought into the world wide web.

Word clouds have many purposes. They are great for integrating into presentations, as the visual impact its the foremost important aspect of them. There are also three categories of word clouds and IBM Word Cloud Generator only covers the first one, which focuses on word frequency, while the other two concentrate of global stats or categories and their corresponding subcategories.

With IBM Word Cloud Generator, you can rapidly and effortlessly design BAT files for efficient lightning-fast generation of PNG image files. All you have to do is write something like “java -jar ibm-word-cloud.jar -c configuration.txt -w 800 -h 600 softpedia.png” within the BAT file and fire it up.

To sum it all up, IBM Word Cloud Generator is a witty tool that brings a small package to the workbench capable of big things. IBM Word Cloud Generator does not come up with brilliant ideas, it executes within certain rules and configuration. As long as you feed it with the right type of text, it is surely to amaze you with the results.