David Kane a écrit :
I have a pdf file that I would like to parse into R:
http://www.williams.edu/Registrar/geninfo/faculty.pdf
For now, I open the file in Acrobat by hand, then save it "as text"
and then use readLines(). That works fine but a) I am concerned that
some information may be lost and b) I may be doing this a lot, so I
would rather have R grab the information from the pdf file directly.
So: is there something like readPDF() for R?
Thanks,
Dave Kane
PS. If you're curious, here is the sort of work that I want to do with
this data:
http://www.ephblog.com/2010/01/08/class-update-and-faculty-ages/
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There could be a command line to transform the pdf file in XML format
and then read the XML file with R.
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