Ghostscript Tools                                     PS2ASCI(1)



NAME
     ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF  to
     ASCI

SYNOPSIS
     ps2ascii [ input.ps [ output.txt ] ]
     ps2ascii input.pdf [ output.txt ]

DESCRIPTION
     ps2ascii   uses   gs(1)   to   extract   ASCI   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  ASCI 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 consider pstotext (see below).

FILES
     Run "gs -h" to find the location of  Ghostscript  documenta-
     tion on your system, from which you can get more details.

SEE ALSO
     pstotext(1),
     http:/www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html

VERSION
     This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.63.

AUTHOR
     Artifex  Software,  Inc.  are  the  primary  maintainers  of
     Ghostscript.   David  M.  Jones 
     made substantial improvements to ps2ascii.



















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