Help for package pdftables

Type:

Package

Title:

Programmatic Conversion of PDF Tables

Version:

0.1

Date:

2016-02-15

Description:

Allows the user to convert PDF tables to formats more amenable to analysis ('.csv', '.xml', or '.xlsx') by wrapping the PDFTables API. In order to use the package, the user needs to sign up for an API account on the PDFTables website (https://pdftables.com/pdf-to-excel-api). The package works by taking a PDF file as input, uploading it to PDFTables, and returning a file with the extracted data.

License:

CC0

URL:

https://www.github.com/expersso/pdftables , https://pdftables.com

BugReports:

https://www.github.com/expersso/pdftables/issues

Imports:

httr, tools

VignetteBuilder:

knitr

Suggests:

knitr, rmarkdown

RoxygenNote:

5.0.1

NeedsCompilation:

Packaged:

2016-02-15 14:33:13 UTC; persson

Author:

Eric Persson [aut, cre]

Maintainer:

Eric Persson <expersso5@gmail.com>

Repository:

CRAN

Date/Publication:

2016-02-15 16:03:15

Convert PDF Tables to format more amenable to analysis

Description

Convert PDF Tables to format more amenable to analysis

Usage

convert_pdf(input_file, output_file = NULL, format = "csv",
  message = TRUE, api_key = Sys.getenv("pdftable_api"))

Arguments

input_file

The PDF file to be converted

output_file

The desired name for the output file

format

One of 'csv', 'xlm', 'xlsx-single', 'xlsx-multiple'

message

If TRUE, outputs a message that conversion was successful

api_key

Your API key (from https://pdftables.com)

Value

Creates an output file with the converted PDF table

Examples

## Not run: 
write.csv(head(iris), file = "test.csv", row.names = FALSE)

# Open test.csv and print as PDF to "test.pdf"

convert_pdf("test.pdf", "test2.csv")

## End(Not run)

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