'\" te .\" $Id: ps2ascii.1 11721 2010-09-14 14:56:26Z chrisl $ .TH PS2ASCII 1 "14 September 2010" 9.00 "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. .\" Oracle has added the ARC stability level to this manual page .SH ATTRIBUTES See .BR attributes (5) for descriptions of the following attributes: .sp .TS box; cbp-1 | cbp-1 l | l . ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE = Availability print/filter/ghostscript = Stability Volatile .TE .PP .SH SEE ALSO pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html .SH VERSION This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 9.00. .SH AUTHOR Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. David M. Jones made substantial improvements to \fBps2ascii\fR. .SH NOTES .\" Oracle has added source availability information to this manual page This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://ghostscript.com/releases/ghostscript-9.00.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://ghostscript.com/.