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, .
// Heimo Claasen // // Brussels 2003-08-02
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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'
> 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
Hav
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" applicatio
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 woul
