Manual: ps2ascii

PS2ASCII(1)				      Ghostscript Tools					 PS2ASCII(1)

NAME
       ps2ascii - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to text

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

DESCRIPTION
       ps2ascii	 uses  gs(1)  to  extract  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.   If  no  output
       file is specified, the ASCII text is written to standard output.

       The  old	 ps2ascii.ps  program was deprecated and removed some years ago, the scripts now use the tx‐
       twrite device to extract text from the input. This does a generally better job  than  the  old  Post‐
       Script program and can extract Unicode not just ASCII. However it no longer supports the COMPLEX fea‐
       ture.

SEE ALSO
       Further	 documentation	 on  the  txtwrite  device  can	 be  found  at	https://ghostscript.readthe‐
       docs.io/en/latest/Devices.html#text-output

VERSION
       This document was last revised for Ghostscript version 10.04.0.

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

10.04.0						18 Sept 2024					 PS2ASCII(1)