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Reading in PDF files into R to do text analysis

Posted on May 29, 2017 by mkevane

Turns out Clay Ford at the University of Virginia wrote a nice tutorial for this, and a package does the trick very nicely.  I tested the “update” at the bottom of the post which shows how to use the pdftools package.   There is also a tutorial by Ingo Feinerer for using the tm (text mining) package.

 

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Economist at Santa Clara University and Director of Friends of African Village Libraries.
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