I am not sure if this helps but I tried to install tabulizer from ropensci but it did not work. tabulizerjars installed and so did tabulapdf. However, it seems more work than it is worth. I have instead gone with the pdftools and tesseract (ocr) packages and those seem to work well enough. I am using a M1 Mac with RStudio Version 2024.12.1+563 (2024.12.1+563) and mac OS Sequoia 15.3.1.