[R] Reading table data from PDF files

[Bryan McCloskey]

All,

Is anyone familiar with a way to use R to read table data from a large collection of PDF files? I'm aware there are various command lines and desktop utilities that might be able to (e.g.,) dump PDFs to text, which could then be parsed for table data. But I'm hoping there is something more integrated that could be incorporated into R functions and scripts to handle large batches of PDFs in a more automated fashion.

Has anyone used R to extract large amounts of tabular data from PDF documents?

-bryan

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Bryan McCloskey, Ph.D.
IT Specialist (Data Management/Internet)
U.S. Geological Survey
St. Petersburg Coastal & Marine Science Center
600 Fourth St. South
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

South Florida Information Access: http://sofia.usgs.gov
Everglades Depth Estimation Network: http://sofia.usgs.gov/eden
Phone: 727.803.8747x3017 * Fax: 727.803.2032
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