extract_tools

If you want to use <code><a rd-options="" href="/link/ft_extract?package=fulltext&version=0.1.8" data-mini-rdoc="fulltext::ft_extract">ft_extract</a></code> function, it currently has 
two options for how to extract text from PDFs: xpdf and ghostscript.

Provides a single interface to many sources of full text
'scholarly' data, including 'Biomed Central', Public Library of
Science, 'Pubmed Central', 'eLife', 'F1000Research', 'PeerJ',
'Pensoft', 'Hindawi', 'arXiv' 'preprints', and more. Functionality
included for searching for articles, downloading full or partial
text, downloading supplementary materials, converting to various
data formats used in and outside of R.

Scott Chamberlain

fulltext

Full Text of 'Scholarly' Articles Across Many Data Sources

extract_tools function

See http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html for instructions on how to download 
and install `xpdf`. For OSX, you an also get `xpdf` via 
Homebrew (https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-x11/blob/master/xpdf.rb) with 
<code>brew install xpdf</code>. Apparently, you can optionally install Poppler, which is 
built on xpdf. Get it at http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

xpdf installation

See http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.16/Install.htm for instructions on how to 
download and install `ghostscript`. For OSX, you an also get `ghostscript` via 
Homebrew (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/ghostscript.rb) 
with <code>brew install gs</code>

ghostscript installation

If you want to use <code><a rd-options='' href='ft_extract'>ft_extract</a></code> function, it currently has 
two options for how to extract text from PDFs: xpdf and ghostscript.

extract_tools: PDF extraction tools

Description

Arguments

xpdf installation

ghostscript installation