The Adventure of PDF to Data Frame in R.
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9 min readJul 17, 2020
Organizations love PDFs, especially governmental bodies. To the masses, they are easy to read, with nice and clean formatting that is easy on the eyes. To the data scientist, they can be nightmares to upload. For example, take a look at this PDF:
What a 105-page nightmare that would be! R reads PDFs as 1-line imports, but clearly this PDF is not designed with data scientists in mind.
