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 9.50.

AUTHOR

       Artifex   Software,   Inc.   are   the   primary   maintainers   of   Ghostscript.    David   M.    Jones
       <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improvements to ps2ascii.