pdftools
Text Extraction, Rendering and Converting of PDF Documents (by ropensci)
terra
R package for spatial data handling https://rspatial.github.io/terra/reference/terra-package.html (by rspatial)
| pdftools | terra | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 499 | 516 | |
| 0.8% | 0.8% | |
| 4.6 | 9.6 | |
| 7 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| C++ | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
pdftools
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdftools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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Northfield First 3 Race Predictions
Learning python can be worthwhile, but just in case you didn't know there is a pdftools package for R that can be used to extract text & tables from pdfs. tabulizer is another package for pulling tables from pdfs & pdfimager can extract figures.
terra
Posts with mentions or reviews of terra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-19.
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GIS in R
Terra is very fast and worth looking into
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Most reliable mapping package atm?
terra is the new package for raster data, but the older raster package still works just fine.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdftools and terra you can also consider the following projects:
Rblpapi - R package interfacing the Bloomberg API from https://www.bloomberglabs.com/api/
mapview - Interactive viewing of spatial data in R
magick - Magic, madness, heaven, sin
PDFTK-Builder - PDFTK Builder is a free graphical interface to PDFTK
dggridR - Discrete Global Grids for R: Spatial Analysis Done Right
gdal - GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.
Rcpp - Seamless R and C++ Integration
metR - Tools for Easier Analysis of Meteorological Fields
metaflow - :rocket: Build and manage real-life ML, AI, and data science projects with ease!
redist - Simulation methods for legislative redistricting.