pdf2txt: Pdf to Text File

View source: R/functions.R

pdf2txtR Documentation

Pdf to Text File

Description

Pdf to Text File

Usage

pdf2txt(file, out, path.exec = "pdftotext", ..., layout = TRUE)

Arguments

file

the file to be converted. Note that the file is not actually changed.

out

the outfile

path.exec

path to pdftotext

...

passed to system

layout

logical; defaults to TRUE

Details

Relies on ssconvert, which ships with Gnumeric.

Value

The return value of system (0 signals success).

Author(s)

Enrico Schumann

References

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html

Examples

## Not run: 
## runs in the current directory
pdf2txt("test.pdf")
## End(Not run)

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