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pdftools (version 3.7.0)

Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

Description

Utilities based on 'libpoppler' for extracting text, fonts, attachments and metadata from a PDF file. Also supports high quality rendering of PDF documents into PNG, JPEG, TIFF format, or into raw bitmap vectors for further processing in R.

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install.packages('pdftools')

Monthly Downloads

148,949

Version

3.7.0

License

MIT + file LICENSE

Maintainer

Jeroen Ooms

Last Published

January 30th, 2026

Functions in pdftools (3.7.0)

pdf_ocr_text

OCR text extraction
pdftools

PDF utilities
qpdf

qpdf utilities
rendering

Render / Convert PDF