R Observatory: Metrics for pdftools version 3.9.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pdftools

3.9.1Package record

Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

39packages dependsuggested by 57

1.6Mdownloads / year

58.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Utilities based on 'libpoppler' https://poppler.freedesktop.org for extracting text, fonts, attachments and metadata from a PDF file. Also supports high quality rendering of PDF documents into PNG, JPEG, TIFF format, or into raw bitmap vectors for further processing in R.

Changes in 3.9.1

MacOS: update poppler 26.08.0

From NEWS in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)

install.packages("pdftools", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci/pdftools")

Development version from ropensci/pdftools. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-pdftools

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-pdftools

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.9.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.9.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #359 · ~4.5K/day · ~137.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60.8K30 days

259.9K90 days

1.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on8.4K r2u21.9K conda_forge195 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/pdftools ↗Organization: ropensci

554Stars

71Forks

52Open issues

4Open PRs

18Releases

328Commits

10Commit identities

pdf-formattext-extractionpoppler-librarypopplerrrstatspdf-filespdftools

328 commits · Last activity 2026-08-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 70%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 5332026-09-28 · 554

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/pdftools on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pdftools adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 3.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, curl 714 KB, qpdf 544 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpp qpdf

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

png webp tesseract testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

39direct

7indirect

Imports 39

Suggested by 57

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

officer flextable magick spelling gridGraphics fixest tm pagedown texPreview

and 48 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2016)

Releases (37)

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3.9.1Latest
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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added 5 exports
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-26
Total releases: 37 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 914 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pdftools")

Format

Ooms, J. (2026). pdftools: Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents (Version 3.9.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pdftools

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pdftools version 3.9.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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