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PDE 1.4.9

Fixed bug with table display in PDE_analyzer_i() Combined continued tables

PDE 1.4.8

• Fixed bug with PDE_check_Xpdf_install() function

PDE 1.4.7

fixed bug with save.tab.by.category variable fixed issue with intToUtf8(0xFB01) - intToUtf8(0xFB06) which produce merge letters

PDE 1.4.6

*added save.tab.by.category variable to seperate tables according to search word found in

PDE 1.4.5

Fixed PDF recognition in PDE_reader_i Added ability to separate pdfs according to category

PDE 1.4.4

Added recognition of superscript and subscript in tables when extracted Fixed issue with international Windows version xpdf install

PDE 1.4.3

Added the ability to have search word categories Fixed bug with display of non-extracted tables Fixed bug with overlapping tables Fixed bug with absolute filter word threshold Fixed bug with very small tables towards the end of the page Fixed strtrim bug

PDE 1.4.2

*Fixed problem with outputting to locations with spaces

PDE 1.4.1

• Added message box that opens when using PDE_analyzer_i() and xpdf command line tools are not installed
• Fixed issue with correct numbering in PDE_analyzer_word_stat table
• Fixed issue when having special characters in PDF file names
• Fixed PDE_check_Xpdf_install() error when config fall was copied from another PC
• Fixed error when extracting small tables
• Fixed clearing of pdf field when cancel was selected
• Fixed issue with pdfs containing empty pages

PDE 1.4.0

• Fixed bug with PDE_analyzer_i() trying to display .png files
• Fixed bug with greyed out searchwords entry box
• Added regex_sw and regex_fw parameters to turn on and off regex formating of search and filter words
• changed to shorter output file suffixes
  • _not.enough.txt.w.filter.words –> _too_few_fwds
  • _no.txt.w.search.words –> _no_txt_w_swds
  • no_table –> no_tab_found
  • _no.table.w.search.words –> _no_tab_w_swds
  • _no.txt.w.search.words –> _no_txt_w_swds
• removed full table heading from output file name of extracted tables
• PDE_analyzer function return a table with search word and filterw word statistics
• txt+- folder contains a txt file with the list of search words used
• PDE_analyzer_word_stat table is written in the outputfolder
• added the option to copy or move processed pdf files into output folder based on filter word presence
• corrected xpdf tools 4.2.0 version to xpdf tools 4.02

PDE 1.3.0

• Updated link to xpdf tools 4.2.0
• Corrected multibyte error for PDE_reader_i()
• Added display of output table to PDE_analyzer_i()
• Added dev_x and dev_y (new tsv format!)

PDE 1.2.1

• Removed LazyLoad: true due to new policies concerning non-existing data path
• changed https://rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/RegExCheatsheet.pdf to https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/RegExCheatsheet.pdf

PDE 1.2.0

• Added tabs to easier navigate the PDE_analyzer_i() interface
• Removed PDE_install_XpdfReader4.02()
• Deprecated PDE_path() (use system.file(package = “PDE”) instead)
• changed standard settings to table extraction without search words
• changed default exp.nondetc.tabs, write.tab.doc.file, and write.txt.doc.file to TRUE
• Added remove_backref(x) function to process tables that have strings identified as backreferences such \1 or \0 in their heading
• added export of indicator file in the table folder if table was detected but could not be processed
• fixed the interpretation of elements in HTML version of the PDF file, which do not have positional (left & top) information
• several other bug fixes

PDE 1.1.2

• Changed whereis command for Solaris OS again
• Fixed tcltk issue for old mac versions

PDE 1.1.1

• Changed whereis command for Solaris OS for PDE_check_Xpdf_install() function

PDE 1.1.0

• Deprecated function PDE_install_XpdfReader4.02() for new function PDE_install_Xpdftools4.02()
• PDE_install_Xpdftools4.02() installs the Xpdf command line tools instead of the XpdfReader
• Updated PDE_check_Xpdf_install()
• Added notification to install latest version of xquartz if tcltk does not work right
• Dissolve requirement of changing global PATH variable incorporation of /bin/XPDF_DIR.config
• Fixed issue with the recognition of non-readable files

PDE 1.0.2

• Fixed the install message for PDE_install_XpdfReader4.02().
• Fixed problem with generation of keeplayout.txt files.
• Added linebeaks to Console outputs.

PDE 1.0.1

• msg error for PDE_check_Xpdf_install() on the Solaris operational system was fixed
• Recognition of the Solaris operational system as Linux was added

PDE 1.0.0

• The package is ready for publication!

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