Split PDF into separate pages or merge multiple PDFs into one.
Usage
split_pdf(file, outdir = NULL, password = NULL, copy = FALSE)
merge_pdfs(file, outfile, copy = FALSE)
Arguments
- file
For
merge_pdfs
, a character vector specifying the path to one or more local PDF files. Forsplit_pdf
, a character string specifying the path or URL to a PDF file.- outdir
For
split_pdf
, an optional character string specifying a directory into which to split the resulting files. IfNULL
, theoutdir
istempdir()
. Iffile
is a URL, both the original file and separate pages are stored in the R session's temporary directory.- password
Optionally, a character string containing a user password to access a secured PDF. Currently, encrypted PDFs cannot be merged with
merge_pdfs
.- copy
Specifies whether the original local file(s) should be copied to
tempdir()
before processing.FALSE
by default. The argument is ignored iffile
is URL.- outfile
For
merge_pdfs
, a character string specifying the path to the PDF file to create from the merged documents.
Value
For split_pdfs
, a character vector specifying the output file
names, which are patterned after the value of file
. For
merge_pdfs
, the value of outfile
.
Details
split_pdf
splits the file listed in file
into
separate one-page doucments. merge_pdfs
creates a single PDF
document from multiple separate PDF files.
Examples
# simple demo file
f <- system.file("examples", "mtcars.pdf", package = "tabulapdf")
get_n_pages(file = f)
#> [1] 3
# split PDF by page
sf <- split_pdf(f)
# merge pdf
mf <- file.path(tempdir(), "merged.pdf")
merge_pdfs(sf, mf)
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmppQPn7d/merged.pdf"
get_n_pages(mf)
#> [1] 3