Output Writers

Apache cTAKES™ has many available writers that can be added to a pipeline in order to print information to standard output, save information to file, and store information in a database. Different types of files can be written, such as marked-up text in HTML, FHIR-formatted data, and tables containing various items.
Writers can be added to a pipeline using commands in a piper file.

Name	Description
CUI Count Writer	Writes a two-column BSV file containing CUIs and their total counts in a document.
CUI List Writer	Writes a list of CUIs, covered text and preferred text to files.
Database File Writer	Writes to a file that is compatible with Database import.
Dependency Node Writer	Writes information about Dependency Nodes to file.
Document Text Writer	Writes Text files with original text from the document.
Document Text Writer (Dir)	Writes Text files with original text from the document in a specified directory.
Event Time Anafora Writer	Writes Temporal Events and Times in Anafora format.
FHIR JSON File Writer (Dir Tree)	Writes Json files with full representation of input text and all extracted information.
FHIR JSON Writer	Writes Json to standard output with full representation of input text and all extracted information.
HTML Table Writer	Writes HTML files with a Table representation of extracted information.
HTML Writer	Writes html files with document text and simple markups (Semantic Group, CUI, Negation).
HTML Writer	Writes html files with document text and simple markups (Semantic Group, CUI, Negation).
I2b2JdbcWriter	Writes UMLS Concepts to a standard I2B2 Observation_Fact table.
JDBC Writer (Template)	Stores extracted information and document metadata in a database.
Judged Attribute XMI Writer	Writes XMI File based upon judged attributes.
Medication Table Writer	Writes a table of Medication information to file, sorted by character index.
ODIE Vector File Writer	Write ODIE Vector File.
Parser Tree Writer	Writes information about TreeBank Nodes to file.
Pretty Text Writer	Writes text files with document text and simple markups (POS, Semantic Group, CUI, Negation).
Pretty Text Writer (UIMA)	Writes text files with document text and simple markups (POS, Semantic Group, CUI, Negation).
Property Text Writer	Writes text files with lists of annotations and properties (POS, Semantic Group, CUI, Negation).
Property Text Writer (UIMA)	Writes text files with lists of annotations and properties (POS, Semantic Group, CUI, Negation).
Semantic Table Writer	Writes a table of Annotation information to file, grouped by Semantic Type.
Sentences Writer	Writes Text files with original text from the document, sentence by sentence.
SimpleMedDatesPrinter	Finds start and stop dates for medication events.
Text Span Writer	Writes BSV files with original text for extracted annotations and their span offsets.
Token Offset Writer	Writes a two-column BSV file containing Begin and End offsets of tokens in a document.
Token Table Writer	Writes a table of base tokens and their spans in a directory tree.
Word Count Writer	Writes a two-column BSV file containing Words and their total counts in a document.
XMI Writer	Writes XMI files with full representation of input text and all extracted information.
XMI Writer (Dir Tree)	Writes XMI files with full representation of input text and all extracted information.
XMI Writer 2	Writes XMI files with full representation of input text and all extracted information.
XMI Writer 3	Writes XMI files with full representation of input text and all extracted information.
Table 1. Available Output Writers. Click on a Writer's name to see more information.