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R: extract dates and numbers from PDF

I'm really struggling to extract the proper information from several thousands PDF files from NTSB (some Dates and numbers to be specific); these PDFs don't require to be OCRed and each report is almo...
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Andrei Niță

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stringr

readr

pdftools

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I think the best approach to achieve what you want is to use regex. In this case I use stringr library. The main idea with regex is to find the desire string pattern, in this case is the date 'July 29...
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Víctor Cortés

Create table from wrapped text in R

Edited: From text based on variable named a I would like to obtain a table in which description cell will be unwrapped. a <- " category variable description val...
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mario19088

r

gsub

stringr

pdftools

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Answers: 4

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One option to achieve your desired result would be read your variable as a fixed width file using e.g. readr::read_fwf and some additional data wrangling steps where I make use of tidyr and dplyr: lib...
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stefan

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