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This tutorial will guide you on processing Rich Text Format documents using BioMedICUS, as well as converting RTF to plain text using BioMedICUS.

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, install BioMedICUS using these instructions. and familiarize yourself with deploying and running BioMedICUS.

Processing RTF

How to process RTF documents using the full BioMedICUS pipeline.

Deploy the default BioMedICUS processors

The following command runs a script that will start up all of the BioMedICUS services for processing clinical notes:

b9 deploy --download-data --rtf

Process a directory of RTF files using BioMedICUS

After deploying BioMedICUS, you can process a directory of documents using the following command:

b9client run --rtf --include-label-text /path/to/input_dir -o /path/to/output_dir

This will processing all documents in the input directory and its child directories with the extension “.rtf” and output resulting events as json files to the output directory.

Converting RTF to Plain Text

How to convert RTF documents to plain text using the rtf-to-text utilities.

Deploy the RTF conversion processor

The following command runs a script that will start up the BioMedICUS service for RTF text conversion:

b9 deploy-rtf-to-text

Process a directory of RTF into plain text files

After deploying the BioMedICUS RTF conversion processor, you can process a directory of documents using the following command:

b9client run-rtf-to-text /path/to/input_dir -o /path/to/output_dir