ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ] ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]
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 con-
sider pstotext (see below).
FILES
Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your
system, from which you can get more details.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-------------------------------+
|Availability | print/filter/ghostscript-core |
+---------------+-------------------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+-------------------------------+
SEE ALSO
pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/psto-
text.html
VERSION
This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.22.
AUTHOR
Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.
David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improve-
ments to ps2ascii.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghost-
pdl-downloads/releases/download/gs922/ghostscript-9.22.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://ghostscript.com/.
9.22 4 October 2017 PS2ASCII(1)