pdf search error "Bad annotation"

[wrasitejmiago]

Hi,

I am new to R and R studio so sorry if this is a slightly dumb question but when I try to run the code below, I get most of my results but also a bunch of errors "PDF error : Bad annotation destintation".

What is it due to? How can I fix this?

My code :
library(pdfsearch)
library(dplyr)
library(writexl)

dest <- "C:/Users/me/Documents/2019/"

result_table <- data.frame(keyword_directory(dest,
keyword = c("informatique"),
surround_lines = 1, full_names = TRUE))

result_clean <- result_table %>% select(ID, pdf_name, keyword, line_text)

write_xlsx(x = result_clean, path = "C:/Users/me/Documents/2019/rod_2019.xlsx", col_names = TRUE)

Thank you

[lebebr01]

Hello!

Thanks for your interest in the package. I don't see anything with your code that jumps out at me as causing the issue. Are you still getting output that you are able to save or no output ultimately (ie. is this a warning or error)?

Ultimately this sounds like it is a problem with the PDF, perhaps it is a scanned PDF that doesn't have the text scanned using OCR? Can you share the PDFs or happen to know which PDF is causing the warning/error? Either of those would help me to troubleshoot.

Best!

[wrasitejmiago]

Hi! Thanks for your reply. I think it might be an issue with the pdfs. I need to run the code on a few thousand files (in batches of ~500) and have no way to know - besides manually - which files are "image" pdfs. Is there a way to tell it to skip if the file does not have text ? Have a good day! M

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 4:07 PM Brandon LeBeau ***@***.***> wrote: Hello! Thanks for your interest in the package. I don't see anything with your code that jumps out at me as causing the issue. Are you still getting output that you are able to save or no output ultimately (ie. is this a warning or error)? Ultimately this sounds like it is a problem with the PDF, perhaps it is a scanned PDF that doesn't have the text scanned using OCR? Can you share the PDFs or happen to know which PDF is causing the warning/error? Either of those would help me to troubleshoot. Best! — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#19?email_source=notifications&email_token=AONACGRUCXAGQSPRIYNCPNDRAGLUVA5CNFSM4KNA2K6KYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOEKHQLKI#issuecomment-579798441>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AONACGUPTBIXTFWQQ5EY66DRAGLUVANCNFSM4KNA2K6A> .

[lebebr01]

Currently no, not without a pattern in the filenames. Perhaps you could adapt your code using some form of try() which could allow you to collect the error message and then filter those errors out upon successfully running through all of your files.

Best.