Re: is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

Re: is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

[robin]

> Question now: Is there any "ps-to-text"
> converter existing which would do
> this with postscript/ghostscript files ?
> (I dindn't get something meaningful from a web
> search.)

No? I tried
http://www.google.com/search?q=pstotext
and got
http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/pstotext.html

Have fun,
Robin
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Re: is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

[Heimo Claasen]

Thanks for the hints flowing !

Now I can try them all on a HUGE manual - 120+ pages entirely cosisting
of text - I guess it will reduce to <30 pp pure text, <bg>.

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-08-02
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  http://www.revobild.net

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Re: is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

[beolach]

I haven't used most of these, so I can't recommend any one over
the others, but it looks like all of these should work.

GNU Ghostscript is distributed with several conversion tools,
including ps2ascii. However, in the ps2ascii(1) man page, it
says "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" and points to
<http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html>.

Also look at PreScript <http://www.nzdl.org/html/prescript.html>,
the PDF Conversion module <http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdf995/>,
and maybe GemDoc <http://www.gemini1consulting.com/gemdoc/>, but
note that GemDoc is for MS Windows, and is not free (other than 14
day trial).

Conway S. Smith

--- Heimo Claasen <hammer@revobild.net> wrote:
> 
> The "pdftotext" application (part of the "xpdf" package) is a real
> blessing; it needs some post-editing but still gets better results 
> with
> extracting the contents than the very own Adobe "service" to strip 
> this
> idiot formatting.
> 
> Question now: Is there any "ps-to-text" converter existing which 
> would do
> this with postscript/ghostscript files ?
> (I dindn't get something meaningful from a web search.)
> 
> // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 
> 2003-07-30
> The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  
> http://www.revobild.net
> 

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is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

[Heimo Claasen]

The "pdftotext" application (part of the "xpdf" package) is a real
blessing; it needs some post-editing but still gets better results with
extracting the contents than the very own Adobe "service" to strip this
idiot formatting.

Question now: Is there any "ps-to-text" converter existing which would do
this with postscript/ghostscript files ?
(I dindn't get something meaningful from a web search.)

// Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-07-30
The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  http://www.revobild.net

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Re: is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

[Dan Zlotnikov]

Heimo,

Not exactly what you wanted, but this might be useful, nonetheless.

www.gobcl.com offers free PDF to text and vice versa, as well as some neat
features like "extract tables from PDF," "convert PDF to HTML," and so on.

Dan

On 31 Jul 2003, Heimo Claasen wrote:

> The "pdftotext" application (part of the "xpdf" package) is a real
> blessing; it needs some post-editing but still gets better results with
> extracting the contents than the very own Adobe "service" to strip this
> idiot formatting.
>
> Question now: Is there any "ps-to-text" converter existing which would do
> this with postscript/ghostscript files ?
> (I dindn't get something meaningful from a web search.)
>
> // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-07-30
> The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read  ==>  http://www.revobild.net
>
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