I have a pdf file with multiple pages, but I am interested in only a subgroup of them. For example, my original PDF has 30 pages and I want only the pages 10 to 16.
I tried using the function split_pdf from tabulizer package, that only splits the pdf page to page (resulting in 200 files, one for each page), followed by merge_pdfs(which merge pdf files). It worked properly, but is taking ages (and I have around 2000 pdf files I have to split).
This is the code I am using:
split = split_pdf('file_path')
start = 10
end = 16
merge_pdfs(split[start:end], 'saving_path')
I couldn't find any better option to do this. Any help would appreciated.
Unfortunatly, I find it a bit unclear what kind of data is in your PDF and what you are trying to extract from it. So I outline two approaches.
If you have tables in the pdf, you should be able to extract the data from said pages using using:
tab <- tabulizer::extract_tables(file = "path/file.pdf", pages = 10:16)
If you only want the text, you should use pdftools which is a lot faster:
text <- pdftools::pdf_text("path/file.pdf")[10:16]