How to extract/import a PDF table in a data frame?

[flegmatiq]

To extract a PDF table in R I have used the pdftools package:

library(pdftools)
txt <- pdf_text("Downloads/Bac-2016.pdf")

The extracted table I can see as a plain text with:

cat(txt)

The question is how to import this plain text table in a data frame?

My OS is Ubuntu 16.04

* Introducing pdftools - A fast and portable PDF extractor

 

[trinker]

See this instead: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/tabulizer