10-25-2016
The pcl format uses the escape (ascii 27) as the record separator, it is essentially a binary file. And IMO it is not something you can edit and always get decent results.
I've written simple pcl commands in C programs that do changes to a line of text - like turn on bold.
Download ghostpcl: Note they have linux executables, so you will have to run this on a linux box.
Ghostscript: GhostPCL Downloads
And see if this does what you need. The C++ coder will have to fully understand pcl code in order to make changes. Doesn't sound practical to me.
Ghostscript:ghostpcl lets you manipulate and view files.
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ps2ascii
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 9.07.
AUTHOR
Artifex Software, Inc. are the primary maintainers of Ghostscript. David M. Jones <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu> made substantial improve-
ments to ps2ascii.
9.07 12 February 2013 PS2ASCII(1)