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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 <[email protected]> made substantial improvements to \fBps2ascii\fR.