On 12-06-26 3:28 PM, Jonas Michaelis wrote:
Dear list,
I am currently scraping some text data from several PDFs using the
readPDF() function in the tm package. This all works very well and in most
cases the encoding seems to be "latin1" - in some, however, it is not. Is
there a good way in R to check character encodings? I found the functions
is.utf8() and is.local() in the tau package but that obviously only gets me
so far.
There are heuristics for guessing encodings, but I don't think they are
built into R. I think the way to do what you want is to read the PDF
spec to find out how the strings are encoded in the source file, and
believe that.
Duncan Murdoch
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