Collection Readers
A Collection Reader is the first component in a Pipeline
that reads documents for the rest of the pipeline to process. A reader can read documents from files on disk,
cells in a database, lines in a file, content on the internet, text typed at a prompt, and so forth.
The table below contains readers that come with cTAKES.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Database Reader | Read documents from a database. |
| Dependency File Reader | Reads in dependency tree training/test data in a tab-delimited format. |
| FhirJsonFileReader | Reads fhir information from json. |
| FhirXmlFileReader | Reads fhir information from xml. |
| File Tree Reader | Reads document texts from text files in a directory tree. |
| Files in Dir Cycle Reader | Reads document texts from text files in a directory, repeating for a number of iterations. |
| Files in Dir Reader | Reads document texts from text files in a directory. |
| JDBC Note Table Reader | Reads document texts from database table's fields. |
| JDBC Reader | Reads document texts from database text fields. |
| Lines in File Reader | Reads a document texts from a single text file, treating each line as a document. |
| Lucene Field Reader | Reads document texts from Lucene text fields. |
| NegEx Corpus Reader | Reads lines from file named by AssertionConst.NEGEX_CORPUS |
| OpenNLP POS Reader | Reads in part-of-speech training/test data in the OpenNLP format. |
| Text Files Reader | Reads document texts from text files specified in a provided list. |
| XMI in Dir Reader (1) | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files in a directory. |
| XMI in Dir Reader (2) | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files in a directory. |
| XMI Reader (1) | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files specified in a provided list. |
| XMI Reader (2) | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files specified in a provided list. |
| XMI Reader (3) | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files specified in a provided list. |
| XMI Reader (4) | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files specified in a provided list. |
| XMI Tree Reader | Reads document texts and annotations from XMI files in a directory tree. |
