[R] Newbie - Scrape Data From PDFs?

[Eric Berger]

Hi Scott,
I have never done this myself but I read something recently on the
r-help distribution that was related.
I just did a quick search and found a few hits that might work for you.

1. https://medium.com/@CharlesBordet/how-to-extract-and-clean-data-from-pdf-files-in-r-da11964e252e
2. http://bxhorn.com/2016/extract-data-tables-from-pdf-files-in-r/
3. https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/textreadr/versions/0.7.0/topics/read_pdf

HTH,
Eric

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:58 AM, Scott Clausen <scottclausen at mac.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m new to R and am using it with RStudio to learn the language. I’m doing so as I have quite a lot of traffic data I would like to explore. My problem is that all the data is located on a number of PDFs. Can someone point me to info on gathering data from other sources? I’ve been to the R FAQ and didn’t see anything and would appreciate your thoughts.
>
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