xpdf: XPDF utilities

In jeroenooms/xpdf: Extract Text and Metadata from PDF Documents

Description

Dump wrappers around xpdf command line utilites.

Usage

pdfinfo(file, args = "")

pdftotext(file, args = "")

pdftohtml(file, args = "")

pdftops(file, args = "")

pdfimages(file, args = "")

pdffonts(file, args = "")

pdfseparate(file, args = "")

pdfunite(file, args = "")

Arguments

file	path or name of the PDF file
args	additional arguments passed to the cmd util

Examples

setwd(tempdir())
download.file("https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.pdf", "R-intro.pdf")
pdfinfo("R-intro.pdf")
pdffonts("R-intro.pdf")

# convert to text
pdftotext("R-intro.pdf")
browseURL("R-intro.txt")

# convert to html
pdftohtml("R-intro.pdf")
browseURL("R-intro.html")

jeroenooms/xpdf documentation built on May 19, 2019, 7:13 a.m.