Package 'qpdf'

Split, Combine and Compress PDF Files

Description

Content-preserving transformations transformations of PDF files. Note qpdf does not read actual content from PDF files: to extract text and data you need the pdftools package.

Usage

pdf_split(input, output = NULL, password = "")

pdf_length(input, password = "")

pdf_subset(input, pages = 1, output = NULL, password = "")

pdf_combine(input, output = NULL, password = "")

pdf_compress(input, output = NULL, linearize = FALSE, password = "")

pdf_overlay_stamp(input, stamp, output = NULL, password = "", pages)

pdf_rotate_pages(
  input,
  pages,
  angle = 90,
  relative = FALSE,
  output = NULL,
  password = ""
)

Arguments

input	path or url to the input pdf file
output	base path of the output file(s)
password	string with password to open pdf file
pages	a vector with page numbers to rotate/select/stamp depending on the function; for pdf_select negative numbers means removing those pages (same as R indexing)
linearize	enable pdf linearization (streamable pdf)
stamp	pdf file of which the first page is overlayed into each page of input
angle	rotation angle in degrees (positive = clockwise)
relative	if TRUE, pages are rotated relative to their current orientation. If FALSE, rotation is absolute (0 = portrait, 90 = landscape, rotated 90 degrees clockwise from portrait)

Details

Currently the package provides the following wrappers:

• pdf_length: show the number of pages in a pdf

• pdf_split: split a single pdf into separate files, one for each page

• pdf_subset: create a new pdf with a subset of the input pages

• pdf_combine: join several pdf files into one

• pdf_compress: compress or linearize a pdf file

• pdf_rotate_pages: rotate selected pages

These functions do not modify the input file: they create new output file(s) and return the path(s) to these newly created files.

Examples

# extract some pages
pdf_file <- file.path(tempdir(), "output.pdf")
pdf_subset('https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-intro.pdf',
  pages = 1:3, output = pdf_file)
pdf_length(pdf_file)
unlink(pdf_file)

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