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 9.55.0.
AUTHOR
Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. David M. Jones
<dmjones AT theory.edu> made substantial improvements to ps2ascii.
9.55.0 27 September 2021 PS2ASCII(1)
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