Re: [R] Reading PDF files

Hello: Apart from readPDF in the tm package, you can use the pdf to text converter command in linux, which is pdftotext.  Say file.pdf is your file, from R you'd use: system(pdftotext file.pdf -layout) This invokes the pdftotext command from within R and creates a file called file.txt with

[R] Reading PDF files

I need to do text mining on PDF files. I understand there is a readPDF command in tm that can be used. Have read the 2008 posts on converting PDF files to text by Tony Breyal and others. Wondering if the procedure has been standardized in any tutorial or otherwise? Being new to R, I was

Re: [R] Reading PDF files

Thank you, Tony. Even in 2012, I still found your post useful. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Reading-PDF-files-tp977248p4650374.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ R-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] Reading PDF files (using xpdf)

Greetings Zaki, You should really post this question on the R-help forum so that others might benefit from any responses. It's been a while since I've done this, but if memory serves, the basic process was to download xpdf and add it to the windows path, thus making it accessable from within R.

[R] Reading PDF files

Hi: I need to do text mining on PDF files. I understand there is a readPDF command in tm that can be used. Have read the 2008 posts on converting PDF files to text by Tony Breyal and others. Wondering if the procedure has been standardized in any tutorial or otherwise? Being new to R, I

Re: [R] Reading PDF files

Copied/pasted from my earlier reply: It's been a while since I've done this, but if memory serves, the basic process was to download xpdf and add it to the windows path, thus making it accessable from within R. Two methods follow: Method One (easiest) - using the awesome ?system command: (1)