Converting pdfs in a folder to txt

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folder <- file.path("C:\Sergio\PDF-folder")
folder
length<-length(dir(folder))
length
dirpdf<-dir(folder)
dirpdf

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Set path to pdftotxt.exe and convert pdt to txt

pdftotext<- "C:\Users\Sergio\xpdf-tools-win-4.01\xpdf-tools-win-4.01\bin64\pdftotext.exe"

for(i in 1:length(dir(folder)))
{
pdf<-file.path("C:\Sergio\PDF-folder", dirpdf[i])
system(paste(""", pdftotext, "" "", pdf, """, sep=""), wait = TRUE)
next
}

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You should look into some R :package: dedicated to pdf extraction.

You can to a lot with this one. There is a pdf_text function.

There is also

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