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 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 10.03.1.
AUTHOR
Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.
David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial
improvements to
ps2ascii.
10.03.1 06 May 2024 PS2ASCII(1)
