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ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to text

Author

       Artifex    Software,   Inc.   are   the   primary   maintainers   of   Ghostscript.    David   M.   Jones
       <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improvements to ps2ascii.

10.04.0                                           18 Sept 2024                                       PS2ASCII(1)

Description

ps2ascii uses gs(1) to extract text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe PortableDocumentFormat (PDF) files. If
       no  files  are  specified  on  the  command  line,  gs  reads  from standard input.  If no output file is
       specified, the ASCII text is written to standard output.

       The old ps2ascii.ps program was deprecated and removed some years ago, the scripts now use  the  txtwrite
       device  to  extract text from the input. This does a generally better job than the old PostScript program
       and can extract Unicode not just ASCII. However it no longer supports the COMPLEX feature.

Name

       ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to text

See Also

       Further      documentation      on      the      txtwrite      device      can      be      found      at
       https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Devices.html#text-output

Synopsis

ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
       ps2asciiinput.pdf [ output.txt ]

Version

       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0.

See Also