ps2ascii (1)

Name

ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII

Synopsis

ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]

Description

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  Post-
     Script(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 speci-
     fied, 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  cur-
     rently 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.


ATTRIBUTES
     See  attributes(5)  for  descriptions   of   the   following
     attributes:

     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Availability   | print/filter/ghostscript |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
     |Stability      | Volatile                 |
     +---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
     pstotext(1),  http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpa-
     per/pstotext.html

VERSION
     This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.00.

AUTHOR
     Artifex  Software,  Inc.  are  the  primary  maintainers  of
     Ghostscript.  David  M.  Jones  <[email protected]>
     made substantial improvements to ps2ascii.



NOTES
     This   software   was   built   from   source  available  at



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Ghostscript Tools                                     PS2ASCII(1)



     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The   original
     community       source       was       downloaded       from
     http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-9.00.tar.gz

     Further information about this software can be found on  the
     open source community website at http://ghostscript.com/.

















































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