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.\" $Id: ps2ascii.1,v 1.37 2005/10/20 19:46:55 ray Exp $
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.TH PS2ASCII 1 "20 October 2005" 8.53 "Ghostscript Tools" \" -*- nroff -*-
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.SH NAME
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ps2ascii \- Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBps2ascii\fR [ \fIinput.ps\fR [ \fIoutput.txt\fR ] ]
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\fBps2ascii\fR \fIinput.pdf\fR [ \fIoutput.txt\fR ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBps2ascii\fR uses \fBgs\fR(1) to extract ASCII text from
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\fBPostScript\fR(tm) or Adobe \fBPortable Document Format\fR (PDF)
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files. If no files are specified on the command line, \fBgs\fR reads from
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standard input; but PDF input must come from an explicitly-named file, not
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standard input. If no output file is specified, the ASCII text is written
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to standard output.
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.PP
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\fBps2ascii\fR doesn't look at font encoding, and isn't very good at
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dealing with kerning, so for PostScript (but not currently PDF), you might
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consider \fBpstotext\fR (see below).
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.SH FILES
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Run "\fBgs -h\fR" to find the location of Ghostscript documentation on your
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system, from which you can get more details.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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pstotext(1), http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html
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.SH VERSION
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This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 8.53.
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.SH AUTHOR
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artofcode LLC and Artifex Software, bug-gs at ghostscript.com, are the
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primary maintainers of Ghostscript.
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David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improvements
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to \fBps2ascii\fR.
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