[R] Figuring out encodings of PDFs in R

2012-06-26 Thread Jonas Michaelis
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

Re: [R] Figuring out encodings of PDFs in R

2012-06-26 Thread Duncan Murdoch
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