R6 Object to open and scrape PDF Files

Scrape text from PDF file, and manage that file

Methods

Public methods

• PDFTool$new()

• PDFTool$getResults()

• PDFTool$getPDFs()

• PDFTool$clone()

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Method new()

Open pdf file for parsing

Usage

PDFTool$new(pdf, start, end)

Arguments

pdf

a path to pdf or raw vector containing the pdf of test results

start

a S3 pdf_start object or character for start of result

end

a S3 pdf_end object or character for start of result

Returns

A new PDFTool object

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Method getResults()

Vector of results (combined)

Usage

PDFTool$getResults()

Returns

vector of combined results

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Method getPDFs()

get specific pdf for a result

Usage

PDFTool$getPDFs(resNum, output)

Arguments

resNum

integer of the result (index of getResult())

output

path to where pdf will be written

Returns

path to pdf

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

PDFTool$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.