--- title: Apache cTAKES Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache cTAKES Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache cTAKES works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.4 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-07-12' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # Apache cTAKES Reviews & Product Details Apache cTAKES is a natural language processing system for extraction of information from electronic medical record clinical free-text. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache cTAKES Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-ctakes/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Okta](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Okta") Okta 4.5/5(1,366) ](https://www.g2.com/products/okta/reviews) [ ![Termius](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Termius") Termius 4.8/5(268) ](https://www.g2.com/products/termius/reviews) [ ![SAP Fiori](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SAP Fiori") SAP Fiori 4.3/5(207) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sap-fiori/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-ctakes/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Anil K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Anil K.") AK Anil K. Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2023 "Excellent Product" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? It helps creating Patient Health Profile from the Patient charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? It would havebeen better if it was a web based product, lack of APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps automating various parts of the workflows in clinical data analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Hospital & Health Care](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Hospital & Health Care") UH Verified User in Hospital & Health Care Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/19/2023 "Its a decent product." 5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? A sophisticated and accessible tool for analysing clinical documents and reports. As it is written in Java, it is very reliable and scalable. Easy to integrate as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? Data loads slowly at scale. The UI needs to improve by a good margin to allow the users to sift through quickly. Documentation can be improved significantly to allow a better experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? Creating NER Models is where it is currently being used significantly. We are looking at use cases where we can try to get a lot of value by using this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vrushabh J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vrushabh J.") VJ Vrushabh J. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/24/2022 "Highly recommended, well maintained open-source NLP system" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? Apache cTAKES is a potent tool to analyze and is powered by Natural language Processing. It helps to handle unstructured data and transform it into meaningful information for any business use case. It also has very well documentation and a community to help. Additionally highly scalable as written in java and works like a charm!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? User interface and documentation covering basics with examples are only improvements area. It can also add support to handle multiple clouds source of inputs like AWS, GC, Azure, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? Used to load extracted medical data, analyze patients' sentiments, detect health cases, and optimize their treatments, with future prediction models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/9/2022 "Apache cTakes To Handle Unstructured Medical Record" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? Apache cTakes is widely used to handle unstructured text data. It is open-source and highly scalable. One can easily integrate this with widely used programming languages like Java and Python. Installation is straightforward, and it can handle massive amounts of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? This product can only be used for unstructured text data. If the data is structured or in any other format, we can't use Apache cTakes. Also, integration is only available with some of the programming languages only. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed to use Natural Langugage Processing System to extract data present in text format. Also, we needed software that is reliable and highly scalable. Hence we have chosen Apache cTakes as we mainly needed to integrate it with Java. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sounak R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sounak R.") SR Sounak R. Big Data Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/22/2022 "Great NLP Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? API in Java Open-Source and Free Good documentation and supportive community Easy to Learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? UI experience could have been better Programming Language support could be more extended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? Used NLP for user reviews analytics for a software product. Implementation was achievable owing to Java API and increased scalability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Prashant .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Prashant .") P Prashant . Data Engineer Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/22/2022 "Pipelines are customizable and dynamic." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? Open source and free, parameterized pipeline building, fast and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? Limited source system integration, cross-cloud integration can be enhanced to load data from multiple cloud sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? Loaded therapeutic diet data of diabetic patients to analyze the pattern of eating and lifestyle habits. Performed text analysis and evaluated the pattern of high risk of diabetes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Akshay A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Akshay A.") AA Akshay A. Campus Ambassador Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/16/2022 "NLP here works like a charm" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? 1) open source, so you get nice support. 2) scalable. 3) easy to understand and also intuitive. 4) documentation is clear & crisp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? 1) not as popular yet so needs some convincing for the team to adapt this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? 1) Using it for the analysis of highly unstructured medical records of many patients' data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Raunak G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Raunak G.") RG Raunak G. Product Growth Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/13/2022 "Natural Language Processing System that you need for digitising Medical Records" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? The most important part of any software program is its documentation. cTAKES documentation along with its tutorials are well created and presented. Also, demos and examples can be really helpful in getting started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? NLP system by cTAKES fit a majority of the requirement that we had while implementing it. Not many things to dislike since we were not looking an extensive NLP product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? We used cTAKES to run an internal drive to digitise medical records.It's extremely powerful and easy to set-up. Also, the learning curve is not very steep to be honest. Scalability of the program is also amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Chandra Shekhar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Chandra Shekhar S.") CS Chandra Shekhar S. Software Development Engineer II (R&D) Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/9/2022 "Wonderful experience" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? Robust, Fast, Scalable, Modular, Portable and open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? Should provide more documentation and application demos for helping beginners to onboard easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? Using it for the analysis of medical records data for one of my projects We are extracting events and classifying the UMLs from the medical records of the patients Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Ashish P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ashish P.") AP Ashish P. Full Stack Web Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/17/2022 "Amazing tool for extracting medical records" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache cTAKES? Good tutorials and demos make it easy to use. Easy to understand analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache cTAKES? Documentation and its design can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache cTAKES solving and how is that benefiting you? It is easy to get started, and we use it for analysis and extracting medical records. 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