[R-meta] Importing Correlations from PDF to table format

[James Pustejovsky]

The pdftools package might be helpful:
https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools
It has very low-level utilities for extracting text from pdf. You'd still
have to do some data clean-up to get the correlations into the form needed
for analysis.

The tabulizer package is meant to provide tools customized for working with
pdf tables:
https://github.com/ropensci/tabulizer
But it requires Java and it appears to be archived on CRAN. I'm not sure
what its development status is. Caveat emptor, I guess.

James

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:20 PM Kiet Huynh <kietduchuynh using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to automate in R (or any
> software) the process of importing correlation values from PDF to usable
> data in a table format that can be used in meta-analysis? My process has
> been to copy the correlations manually one-by-one from the PDF to excel
> (which takes a lifetime!), and then import the excel data into R. I'm sure
> there must be a better, faster, and less error-prone way to do this.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Kiet
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