ps2ascii(1)

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  documenta-
     tion 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 7.07.

AUTHOR

     L.  Peter  Deutsch  <ghost@aladdin.com>  was  the   original
     author.  The current version has substantial improvements by
     David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu>.

7.05               Last change: 22 April 2002                   1