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tabulizer (version 0.2.2)

make_thumbnails: make_thumbnails

Description

Convert Pages to Image Thumbnails

Usage

make_thumbnails(file, outdir = NULL, pages = NULL, format = c("png",
  "jpeg", "bmp", "gif"), resolution = 72, password = NULL, copy = FALSE)

Arguments

file

A character string specifying the path or URL to a PDF file.

outdir

An optional character string specifying a directory into which to split the resulting files. If NULL, the outdir is tempdir(). If file is a URL, both file and thumbnails are stored in the R session's temporary directory.

pages

An optional integer vector specifying pages to extract from.

format

A character string specifying an image file format.

resolution

A numeric value specifying the image resolution in DPI.

password

Optionally, a character string containing a user password to access a secured PDF.

copy

Specifies whether the original local file(s) should be copied to tempdir() before processing. FALSE by default. The argument is ignored if file is URL.

Value

A character vector of file paths.

Details

This function save each (specified) page of a document as an image with 720 dpi resolution. Images are saved in the same directory as the original file, with file names specified by the original file name, a page number, and the corresponding file format extension.

References

Tabula

See Also

extract_tables, extract_text, make_thumbnails

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
# simple demo file
f <- system.file("examples", "data.pdf", package = "tabulizer")

make_thumbnails(f)
# }

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