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extract_metadata

Source: R/extract_metadata.R
extract_metadata.Rd

Extract metadata from a file

Usage

extract_metadata(file, password = NULL, copy = FALSE)

Arguments

file

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

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 list.

Details

This function extracts metadata from a PDF

See also

extract_tables, extract_areas, extract_text, split_pdf

Author

Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper@gmail.com>

Examples

# simple demo file
f <- system.file("examples", "mtcars.pdf", package = "tabulapdf")

extract_metadata(f)
#> $pages
#> [1] 3
#> 
#> $title
#> NULL
#> 
#> $author
#> NULL
#> 
#> $subject
#> NULL
#> 
#> $keywords
#> NULL
#> 
#> $creator
#> [1] "LaTeX via pandoc"
#> 
#> $producer
#> [1] "xdvipdfmx (20240407)"
#> 
#> $created
#> [1] "Tue Apr 30 14:32:36 UTC 2024"
#> 
#> $modified
#> NULL
#> 
#> $trapped
#> NULL
#>