[R] Extracting a a chunk of text from a pdf file

[Joshua Wiley]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Victor <vdemart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately pdf2text doesn't seem to exist either in linux or mac osx.

I think Jeff's main point was to search for software specific for your
task (convert a pdf to text).  Formatting will be lost so once you get
your text files, I would look at regular expressions to try to find
the right part of text to grab.  Some general functions that seem like
they might be relevant:

## for getting the text into R
?readLines
?scan
## for finding the part you need
?regexp
?grep

Cheers,

Josh


> Ciao Vittorio
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> Il giorno 17/set/2011, alle ore 21:00, Jeff Newmiller ha scritto:
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>> Doesn't seen like an R task, but see pdf2text? (From pdftools, UNIX command line tools)
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>> Victor <vdemart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> In an R script I need to extract some  figures from  many web pages in pdf format. As an example see http://www.terna.it/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TTQuOPUf%2fs0%3d&tabid=435&mid=3072 from which I would like to extract the "Totale: 1,025,823").
>> Is there any solution?
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>> Vittorio
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