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 documentation
on your system, from which you can get more details.
SEE ALSO¶
pstotext(1),
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
VERSION¶
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.06.
AUTHOR¶
Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. David M.
Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improvements to
ps2ascii.