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- .\" $Id: ps2ascii.1,v 1.37 2005/10/20 19:46:55 ray Exp $
- .TH PS2ASCII 1 "20 October 2005" 8.53 "Ghostscript Tools" \" -*- nroff -*-
- .SH NAME
- ps2ascii \- Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBps2ascii\fR [ \fIinput.ps\fR [ \fIoutput.txt\fR ] ]
- .br
- \fBps2ascii\fR \fIinput.pdf\fR [ \fIoutput.txt\fR ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- \fBps2ascii\fR uses \fBgs\fR(1) to extract ASCII text from
- \fBPostScript\fR(tm) or Adobe \fBPortable Document Format\fR (PDF)
- files. If no files are specified on the command line, \fBgs\fR 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.
- .PP
- \fBps2ascii\fR 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 \fBpstotext\fR (see below).
- .SH FILES
- Run "\fBgs -h\fR" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your
- system, from which you can get more details.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
- .SH VERSION
- This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.53.
- .SH AUTHOR
- artofcode LLC and Artifex Software, bug-gs at ghostscript.com, are the
- primary maintainers of Ghostscript.
- David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improvements
- to \fBps2ascii\fR.
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