On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > On Oct 15, 2009, at 3:43 AM, Biedermann, Jürgen wrote:
> You don't indicate the OS you are on, but you will want to get a hold of > 'pdftotext', which is a command line application that can extract the > textual content from the PDF files. That's assuming the text is in the PDF as a text object. If it's a scan of a paper document the chances are that all you have is an image, in which case you need to do OCR (optical character recognition) or get someone to type it all in again. Even if you can get all the text out with pdftext, R might not be the right tool for the job - I'd do this kind of text processing and matching job in Python (and before Python, I'd have used Perl). But if all you have is a wRench... Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
