You can convert the pdf to text, then manipulate the output to read only the data.
In linux has pdftotext function, in linux you can download the xpdf zip, that contais such function. Best On 1/26/09, joe1985 <johan...@dsr.life.ku.dk> wrote: > > > Hello > > I have around 200 PDF-documents, containing data i want organized in R as a > dataframe. The PDF-documents look like this; > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p21667074/PRRS-billede%2Bmed%2Bfarver.jpeg > > or like this; > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p21667074/PRRS-billede%2Bmed%2Bfarver%2B2.jpeg > > So i want to pull out the data in coloured boxes it become organized like > this (just in R instead of excel); > > > http://www.nabble.com/file/p21667074/PRRS-billede%2Bexcel.jpeg > > So the 0'es and 1'es represent when either "PRRS-neg" occurs presented by a > 0 in the colums PRRS-VAC and PRRS-DK on a particular date. And the same > with > "PRRS-pos VAC" or "Vac" presented by a 1 in the colum PRRS-VAC, and > "PRRS-pos DK" or "DK" presented by a 1 in the colum PRRS-DK. And also with > "sanVAC" there should be a 1 in the colum VACsan, and with "sanDK" there > should be a 1 in the colum DKsan. The first date for each "CHR-nr" should > either be the earliest date ne the red box (as in the first picture), or > the > date with word "før" before the date (as in the second picture). All the > 200 > PDF-documents looks like the ones in the pictures, each reprenting a > different "CHR-nr" > > > Hope you can help me > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Getting-data-from-a-PDF-file-into-R-tp21667074p21667074.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Henrique Dallazuanna Curitiba-Paraná-Brasil 25° 25' 40" S 49° 16' 22" O [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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