[R] parsing pdf files

[Laurent Rhelp]

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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Did you know this site ?

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

There could be a command line to transform the pdf file in XML format 
and then read the XML file with R.