[R] Getting data from a PDF-file into R

[joe1985]

Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
> joe1985 wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> I have around 200 PDF-documents, containing data i want organized in R as
>> a
>> dataframe. The PDF-documents look like this;
>> 
>>   http://www.nabble.com/file/p21667074/PRRS-billede%2Bmed%2Bfarver.jpeg 
>> 
>> or like this;
>> 
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21667074/PRRS-billede%2Bmed%2Bfarver%2B2.jpeg 
>> 
>> So i want to pull out the data in coloured boxes it become organized like
>> this (just in R instead of excel);
>> 
>> 
>> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21667074/PRRS-billede%2Bexcel.jpeg 
>> 
>> So the 0'es and 1'es represent when either "PRRS-neg" occurs presented by
>> a
>> 0 in the colums PRRS-VAC and PRRS-DK on a particular date. And the same
>> with
>> "PRRS-pos VAC" or "Vac" presented by a 1 in the colum PRRS-VAC, and
>> "PRRS-pos DK"  or "DK" presented by a 1 in the colum PRRS-DK. And also
>> with
>> "sanVAC" there should be a 1 in the colum VACsan, and with "sanDK" there
>> should be a 1 in the colum DKsan. The first date for each "CHR-nr" should
>> either be the earliest date ne the red box (as in the first picture), or
>> the
>> date with word "før" before the date (as in the second picture). All the
>> 200
>> PDF-documents looks like the ones in the pictures, each reprenting a
>> different "CHR-nr"
>> 
>> 
>> Hope you can help me
> 
> Not on the basis of .jpeg files, I think. We'd need some indication of
> what the PDF looks like inside.  There's a tool called pdftotext, which
> might do something for you, IF you can figure out reliably where your
> data begin and end.
> 
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> Thank you for your quick respons
> 
> Here they are as textfiles;
> 
> 
> 
> 
http://www.nabble.com/file/p21680833/Foersom%2B-%2B688.txt Foersom+-+688.txt 

http://www.nabble.com/file/p21680833/M%25C3%2598LLEVANG%2B602%2B.txt
M%C3%98LLEVANG+602+.txt 
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