Extract Text from PDF using Python

Extracts text content from a PDF file using pdfplumber (Python). No Java required - uses Python environment.

Usage

extract_text_from_pdf_py(file_path, envname = "textanalysisr-env")

Arguments

file_path

Character string path to PDF file

envname

Character string, name of Python virtual environment (default: "langgraph-env")

Value

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

Details

Uses pdfplumber Python library through reticulate. Requires Python environment setup. See setup_langgraph_env().

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
setup_langgraph_env()

pdf_path <- "path/to/document.pdf"
text_data <- extract_text_from_pdf_py(pdf_path)
head(text_data)
} # }