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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
