rOpenSci package or resource used*
URL or code snippet for your use case*
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Link to GitHub repo
- Has all the code and raw PDFs for users to test out themselves
- Vignette/Webpage with example code run
Image
Raw example of the PDF table from the TTB. Notice there are inconsistent spaces between the table columns.
Sector
Finance, econometrics
Field(s) of application
Forecasting, finance, econometrics, but really could be used for anything!
What did you do?
Goal: Read in non-trivially formatted tables from a PDF
Outcome:
- Read in PDF text/tables
- Split messy raw text into useful tabular format
- Combine into clean dataframes
- Apply across many similar PDFs
Comments
Love pdftools and love ropensci!
