Re: [R] Extracting a a chunk of text from a pdf file

2011-09-18 Thread Victor
That's exactly the way I work. Here you are a chunk of text of my script. To put it in a nutshell I'm already extracting - by means of grep and gsub from indweb (luckily an html file) - the web addresses like http://www.terna.it/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TTQuOPUf%2fs0%3d&tabid=435&mid=3072

Re: [R] Extracting a a chunk of text from a pdf file

2011-09-18 Thread Joshua Wiley
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Victor wrote: > Unfortunately pdf2text doesn't seem to exist either in linux or mac osx. I think Jeff's main point was to search for software specific for your task (convert a pdf to text). Formatting will be lost so once you get your text files, I would look at

Re: [R] Extracting a a chunk of text from a pdf file

2011-09-18 Thread Victor
Unfortunately pdf2text doesn't seem to exist either in linux or mac osx. Ciao Vittorio Il giorno 17/set/2011, alle ore 21:00, Jeff Newmiller ha scritto: > Doesn't seen like an R task, but see pdf2text? (From pdftools, UNIX command > line tools) > -

Re: [R] Extracting a a chunk of text from a pdf file

2011-09-17 Thread Jeff Newmiller
Doesn't seen like an R task, but see pdf2text? (From pdftools, UNIX command line tools) --- Jeff Newmiller The . . Go Live... DCN: Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar