Message-ID: <e8ec70e41001090511v39e819fckc0c751330027a9a7@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2010-01-09T13:11:27Z
From: David Kane
Subject: parsing pdf files
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/