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Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

v3.7.0 · Jan 30, 2026 · MIT + file LICENSE
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Description

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.

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compiled code

File ‘pdftools/libs/pdftools.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

compiled code

File ‘pdftools/libs/pdftools.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

compiled code

File 'pdftools/libs/x64/pdftools.dll':
  Found non-API call to R: 'R_UnboundValue'

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See 'Writing portable packages' in the 'Writing R Extensions' manual,
and section 'Moving into C API compliance' for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 22.9Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs   10.0Mb
    share  12.8Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 22.9Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs    9.1Mb
    share  13.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 20.3Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs    7.4Mb
    share  12.8Mb
NOTE r-patched-linux-x86_64

compiled code

File ‘pdftools/libs/pdftools.so’:
  Found non-API call to R: ‘R_UnboundValue’

Compiled code should not call non-API entry points in R.

See ‘Writing portable packages’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’ manual,
and section ‘Moving into C API compliance’ for issues with the use of
non-API entry points.

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NOTE 11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is 22.9Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs   10.0Mb
    share  12.8Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 22.9Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs    9.1Mb
    share  13.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is 20.3Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    libs    7.4Mb
    share  12.8Mb

Reverse Dependencies (77)

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp qpdf IDEATools LJexm LLMAgentR ORscraper PacketLLM RAGFlowChainR SwimmeR Tivy arete biodosetools contentanalysis daiR disclosuR doconv dtrackr +62 more reverse deps pdftools

Version History

new 3.7.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.7.0 ← 3.6.0 diff Jan 29, 2026
updated 3.6.0 ← 3.5.0 diff Sep 9, 2025
updated 3.5.0 ← 3.4.1 diff Mar 2, 2025
updated 3.4.1 ← 3.4.0 diff Sep 19, 2024
updated 3.4.0 ← 3.3.3 diff Sep 24, 2023
updated 3.3.3 ← 3.3.2 diff Feb 6, 2023
updated 3.3.2 ← 3.3.1 diff Oct 15, 2022
updated 3.3.1 ← 3.3.0 diff Oct 3, 2022
updated 3.3.0 ← 3.2.1 diff Jul 6, 2022
updated 3.2.1 ← 3.2.0 diff May 26, 2022
updated 3.2.0 ← 3.1.1 diff Apr 18, 2022
updated 3.1.1 ← 3.1.0 diff Feb 24, 2022
updated 3.1.0 ← 3.0.1 diff Feb 15, 2022
updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0.0 diff May 5, 2021
updated 3.0.0 ← 2.3.1 diff May 4, 2021
updated 2.3.1 ← 2.3 diff May 21, 2020
updated 2.3 ← 2.2 diff Nov 9, 2019
updated 2.2 ← 2.1 diff Mar 9, 2019
updated 2.1 ← 2.0 diff Jan 15, 2019