Sorry, I meant "ps2ascii". And yes, it does take pdf input as well as
postscript.
- Dave
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 speci?
fied 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).
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> Dave,
>
> ps2text takes pdfs????!!!!!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David T.
> Lewis
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 6:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-project] [OT] RIS vs. BibTeX
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 05:10:40AM -0400, Schwab,Wilhelm K wrote:
> >
> > I really like LaTeX's abilty to create new environments, markup, etc. What
> > do you do for spell checking?
> >
>
> /usr/bin/ps2text may be of some help. Run your pdf (or ps) output through
> ps2text, then spell check the flat text file. It's not as nice as a built in
> spell checker, but maybe better than none at all.
>
> Dave
>
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