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 | image/ghostscript | +---------------+-------------------+ |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 9.55.0. 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 Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source- code-downloads.html. 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/gs9550/ghostscript-9.55.0.tar.gz. Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://ghostscript.com/. 9.55.0 27 September 2021 PS2ASCII(1)