1PS2ASCII(1) Ghostscript Tools PS2ASCII(1)
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6 ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
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9 ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
10 ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]
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13 ps2ascii uses gs(1) to extract ASCII text from PostScript(tm) or Adobe
14 Portable Document Format (PDF) files. If no files are specified on the
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19 ps2ascii doesn't look at font encoding, and isn't very good at dealing
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24 Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your
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28 pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/psto‐
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32 This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.27.
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35 Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.
36 David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improve‐
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