CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.2.2

• extract_tables() gets outdir argument for writing out CSV, TSV and JSON files.
• Fixes in vignette.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.2.1

• make_thumbnails() and split_pdf() now use tempdir() as the default output directory.
• extract_ functions get copy argument for copying original local files to R session’s temporary directory.
• PDF files used do not get copied to temporary directory by default.
• General clean-up for CRAN submission.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.2.0

• Upgrade to PDFBox 2/Tabula 1.0.1 (#48)
• method argument is changed to output in extract_tables().
• New method argument reflects method of extraction as in Tabula command-line Java utility.
• extract_text() accepts area as argument.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.24

• Switch to using new document loading algorithm and localize all remote URLs. (#40)
• Removed kind of annoying message about overwriting a temporary file. (#36)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.23

• Transferred source code repository to ropensci: https://github.com/ropensci/tabulizer

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.22

• Transferred source code repository to ropenscilabs: https://github.com/ropenscilabs/tabulizer

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.21

• Exposed a new option widget in locate_areas() to control which widget is used in locating areas.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.20

• Fixed bug in internal function try_area_full() introduced by changes in8.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.19

• Further expand the locate_areas() interface to use a Shiny gadget when working within RStudio, or otherwise rely on the full functionality interface (based on graphics device events) or reduced functionality interface (relying on locator()). (#8)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.18

• Completely rewrite the locate_areas() interface to rely on graphics device event handling where possible. This may behave differently across platforms or in RStudio. (#8)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.17

• Fixed a bug in extract_tables() such that when no tables are found, an empty list is returned (for method values with list response structures). (h/t Lincoln Mullen)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.16

• split_pdfs() and make_thumbnails() gain an outdir argument to specify where to save the output. The file numbering of output files is also now zero-padded.
• An warning in merge_pdfs() has been fixed.
• stop_logging() is called when the package is attached to the search path.
• get_page_dims() earns a doc argument and argument order in get_n_pages() is reversed.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.15

• Added better support for specifying character encoding. (#10)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.14

• Added support for password-protected PDF files. (#11)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.13

• Expand file paths where needed. (h/t David Gohel)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.12

• Improve handling of URLs when using extract_areas() by downloading PDF to temporary directory.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.11

• Exposed new functions split_pdf() and merge_pdfs() to split and merge PDFs, respectively. (#9)
• Exposed a get_n_pages() to determine the page length of a PDF document.
• Moved tabula .jar file to separate package, tabulizerjars. (#2)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.10

• Added a new function extract_metadata() to extract PDF metadata as a list.
• Added a new function extract_text() to convert PDF contents to an R character vector.
• Changed the internal localize_file() function to use PDFBox to natively read from a URL.
• Removed illogical default file argument value in extract_tables().

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.9

• Expanded test suite to cover areas and columns arguments and utilities. (#3)
• Fixed the same bug in make_columns() as was corrected for make_areas(). (#5)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.8

• Fixed a bug in make_areas() internal when area was specified as a length 1 list for a multi-page document. (#5, h/t Tony Hirst)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.7

• Added a function, extract_areas(), to interactively identify and extract page areas. Another new function, locates_areas() implements the locator functionality without performing any extraction.
• Added a function, make_thumbnails(), to convert pages into individual image files.
• Added a function, get_page_dims(), to extract page dimensions.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.6

• Fixed a bug in the repeating of the area argument when length(area) == 1 & length(pages) > 1. (#5, #6)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.5

• Fixed a bug in the handling of the area argument. (#5, #6)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.4

• Added vignette. (#4)
• Added tests of guess parameter. (#3)
• Added a spreadsheet argument, a la Tabula itself.
• Fixed bugs in parsing of area and columns arguments.

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.3

• Added multiple table writing options beyond the default list of matrices. (#1)

CHANGES TO tabulizer 0.1.1

• Initial release.