pdftools

3.9.0

Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents

87packages depend

1.7Mdownloads / year

58.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2016-02-2636 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

Install

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

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.

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

Downloads

1.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #291 · ~4.5K/day · ~138.2K/mo

pdftools Releases R versions

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439.2K90 days

1.7M1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ropensci/pdftools

552Stars

72Forks

53Open issues

3Open PRs

18Releases

325Commits

10Contributors

pdf-formattext-extractionpoppler-librarypopplerrrstatspdf-filespdftools

325 commits · Last activity 2026-05-13 · +0.4% stars, 30d

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/pdftools on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpp qpdf

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

png webp tesseract testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

87direct

6indirect

and 39 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

36 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-26
Total releases: 36 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 914 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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