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 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/virtual­
       paper/pstotext.html


VERSION

       This  document  was  last  revised for Ghostscript version
       6.50.


AUTHOR

       L. Peter  Deutsch  <ghost@aladdin.com>  was  the  original
       author.   The current version has substantial improvements
       by David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu>.


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