Extract Text from PDF

Extracts text content from a PDF file using pdftools package.

Usage

extract_text_from_pdf(file_path)

Arguments

file_path

Character string path to PDF file

Value

Data frame with columns: page (integer), text (character) Returns NULL if extraction fails or PDF is empty

Details

Uses pdftools::pdf_text() to extract text from each page. Preserves page structure and cleans whitespace. Works best with text-based PDFs (not scanned images).

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
pdf_path <- "path/to/document.pdf"
text_data <- extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path)
head(text_data)
} # }