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title: 'tableParser: Parse Tabled Content to Text Vector and Extract Statistical Standard
  Results'
version: 1.0.5
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.tableParser
abstract: 'Features include the ability to extract tabled content from NISO-JATS-coded
  XML, any native HTML or HML file, DOCX, and PDF documents, and then collapse it
  into a text format that is readable by humans by mimicking the actions of a screen
  reader. As tables within PDF documents are extracted with the ''tabulapdf'' package,
  and the table captions and footnotes cannot be extracted, the results on tables
  within PDF documents have to be considered less precise. The function table2matrix()
  returns a list of the tables within a document as character matrices. table2text()
  collapses the matrix content into a list of character strings by imitating the behavior
  of a screen reader. The textual representation of characters and numbers can be
  unified with unifyMatrix() before parsing. The function table2stats() extracts the
  tabled statistical test results from the collapsed text with the function standardStats()
  from the ''JATSdecoder'' package and, if activated, checks the reported and coded
  p-values for consistency. Due to the great variability and potential complexity
  of table structures, parsing accuracy may vary. A detailed description of how ''tableParser''
  works is provided here: <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.19756>.'
authors:
- family-names: Böschen
  given-names: Ingmar
  email: ingmar.boeschen@uni-hamburg.de
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-3991
repository: https://ingmarboeschen.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/ingmarboeschen/tableParser
commit: 321a2ac61048dd47e88ca1ffb0d3623ed5369d2e
url: https://github.com/ingmarboeschen/tableParser
date-released: '2026-04-09'
contact:
- family-names: Böschen
  given-names: Ingmar
  email: ingmar.boeschen@uni-hamburg.de
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-3991