1PS2ASCII(1)                    Ghostscript Tools                   PS2ASCII(1)
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NAME

6       ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
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SYNOPSIS

9       ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
10       ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]
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DESCRIPTION

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
15       command  line,  gs  reads  from standard input; but PDF input must come
16       from an explicitly-named file, not standard input.  If no  output  file
17       is specified, the ASCII text is written to standard output.
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19       ps2ascii  doesn't look at font encoding, and isn't very good at dealing
20       with kerning, so for PostScript (but not currently PDF), you might con‐
21       sider pstotext (see below).
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FILES

24       Run  "gs  -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your
25       system, from which you can get more details.
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SEE ALSO

28       pstotext(1),     http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/psto‐
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VERSION

32       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.02.1.
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AUTHOR

35       Artifex  Software,  Inc.  are  the  primary maintainers of Ghostscript.
36       David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made  substantial  improve‐
37       ments to ps2ascii.
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