<p>I realize this question is older, but i thought reproducible examples might not hurt:</p>
<pre><code>library(pdftools)
pdftools::pdf_text(pdf = &quot;http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.2805.pdf&quot;)
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Offline version:</strong></p>
<pre><code>pdf(file = &quot;tmp.pdf&quot;)
plot(1, main = &quot;mytext&quot;)
dev.off()
pdftools::pdf_text(pdf = &quot;tmp.pdf&quot;)
</code></pre>
<p>I come back to this question from time to time and even though the current answer is great, i always hope to find reproducible code. So i thought i add it. It can be removed if not needed.</p>
How to read pdf file in R
<p>Someone can help me to let me know how to read the pdf file, which is including some tables. I want to extract the data in the table, and arrange to csv file.</p>

<p>Thanks a lot</p>