redhat man page for 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 7.05.

AUTHOR
       L. Peter Deutsch <ghost@aladdin.com> was the original author.   The  current  version  has  substantial	improvements  by  David  M.  Jones
       <dmjones@theory.lcs.mit.edu>.

7.05								   22 April 2002						       PS2ASCII(1)