[gs-devel] Extract ASCII Text From Crop

[Russell Lang]

Doug,

> Not sure if this is the right spot to post this question...If not, please
> direct me to where I shoud.
> 
> I need a method to extract the ASCII from a spefic cropped area.  Using
> Ghostscipt I can easily speicfiy a /CropBox and then execute GS against the
> file using -dUseCropBox.  I'd like however, to now use something like
> ps2ascii to extract the text from just that 'cropped' box.  Anyway to easily
> do that?

I suggest you use pstotext with the -b command line option.  This outputs each word on a 
separate line with the coordinates of the word.  You could parse that to include only those 
words that fall in your cropped area.