[Gs-dgs-devel] Extracting Text from Ghost Script

[Rajkumar Sivasamy]

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Hi,
Am trying to implement Accessibility for Ghost View(ggv) application in
Linux. Ghost-View is an application which is used for viewing
post-script and pdf files. Ghost view makes use of the "ghost script" to
render text on the screen. From accessibility perspective the text
(Document's Text) has to be exported to the AT (Assistive Technologies
like Screen Reader, Screen Magnifier) which will make use of it to
replicate the same to user (A screen reader will make use of the text to
read out them to the disabled user). Since Ghost View makes use of
"ghost script" to render the text on the screen, I believe there could
be some ways of getting back the text (ASCII format) from ghost script.

I have found many utilities like "pstotext", "ps2ascii", "prescript" to
convert the postscript to text or html. But it will be helpful if there
is a way by which the ghost script can be directly tuned to return back
the text. 

PS: Is there any "mode" in which Ghost Script can be operated to return
back the text to a file?

Please pour in your comments....

Thanks & Regards,
Raj.

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