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 consider pstotext (see below).

FILES
       Run "gs -h" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation 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 8.71.

AUTHOR
       Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript.  David M. Jones <dmjonesATtheory.edu> made sub-
       stantial improvements to ps2ascii.



8.71                                                    10 February 2010                                             PS2ASCII(1)