ps2ascii

 

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 PS2ASCII(1)             Ghostscript Tools             PS2ASCII(1)
 
 
 
NAME
        ps2ascii  -  Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF
        to ASCII
 
SYNOPSIS
        ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
        ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]
 
DESCRIPTION
        ps2ascii  uses  gs(1)   to   extract   ASCII   text   from
        PostScript(tm)  or  Adobe  Portable  Document Format (PDF)
        files. If no files are specified on the command  line,  gs
        reads from standard input; but PDF input must come from an
        explicitly-named file, not standard input.  If  no  output
        file  is  specified, the ASCII text is written to standard
        output.
 
        ps2ascii doesn't look at font  encoding,  and  isn't  very
        good  at  dealing with kerning, so for PostScript (but not
        currently PDF), you might consider pstotext (see below).
 
FILES
        Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documenta­
        tion  on your system, from which you can get more details.
 
SEE ALSO
        pstotext(1),  http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual­
        paper/pstotext.html
 
 VERSION
        This  document  was  last  revised for Ghostscript version
        6.50.
 
AUTHOR
        L. Peter  Deutsch  <ghost@aladdin.com>  was  the  original
        author.   The current version has substantial improvements
        by David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu>.
 
 
 
 6.50                     2 December 2000              PS2ASCII(1)

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