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 8.15.
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 subtantial improvements to ps2ascii.