I have been gone for awhile while battling apathy. I am back to working on my project with a little different prospective. I a need library to help generate a report for the user. The report should be based on a template and what sections will be included in the report will be controlled by the user. Of course, I need this "report library" to be callable from my CI app. The different sections of the report will contain data that I have already gathered for that user (plus some boilerplates). It will have a few charts, a few graphs, and a bunch of text, broken down into 3 or 4 parts. I figure that the output of this library should be a Word document, since I expect the text/charts/graphs will need to be formatted a little by the end user. My app stores data long term in AWS S3 and DynamoDB. I have also stored some data in a server based MariaDB database. So whatever library needs to be able to pull from those varied data stores. My philosophy all along has been to use existing tools. So for example I use AWS lots and am considering Microsoft offerings for other parts. I would also consider doing it in Google Docs, but I see that the template must be public, and this concerns me.
I am willing to pay for this library. Does anyone have a recommendation? I did see KoolReports but am just not sure if it can do what I need it to.
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