# here is a pdf for mining url <- "http://www.noisyroom.net/blog/RomneySpeech072912.pdf" dest <- tempfile(fileext = ".pdf") download.file(url, dest, mode = "wb")
# set path to pdftotxt.exe and convert pdf to text exe <- "C:\\Program Files\\xpdfbin-win-3.03\\bin32\\pdftotext.exe" system(paste("\"", exe, "\" \"", dest, "\"", sep = ""), wait = F)
# get txt-file name and open it filetxt <- sub(".pdf", ".txt", dest) shell.exec(filetxt); shell.exec(filetxt) # strangely the first try always throws an error..
# do something with it, i.e. a simple word cloud library(tm) library(wordcloud) library(Rstem)
corpus <- Corpus(VectorSource(txt)) corpus <- tm_map(corpus, removePunctuation) tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(corpus) m <- as.matrix(tdm) d <- data.frame(freq = sort(rowSums(m), decreasing = TRUE))
# Stem words d$stem <- wordStem(row.names(d), language = "english")
# and put words to column, otherwise they would be lost when aggregating d$word <- row.names(d)
# remove web address (very long string): d <- d[nchar(row.names(d)) < 20, ]
# aggregate freqeuncy by word stem and # keep first words.. agg_freq <- aggregate(freq ~ stem, data = d, sum) agg_word <- aggregate(word ~ stem, data = d, function(x) x[1])
d <- cbind(freq = agg_freq[, 2], agg_word)
# sort by frequency d <- d[order(d$freq, decreasing = T), ]