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 txtwrite device to ex‐
       tract  text  from the input. This does a generally better job than the old PostScript program and can extract Unicode
       not just ASCII. However it no longer supports the COMPLEX feature.

SEE ALSO
       Further documentation on	 the  txtwrite	device	can  be	 found	at  https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/De‐
       vices.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)