[Gs-dgs-devel] Re: [gs-devel] Extracting Text from Ghost Script

[Rajkumar Sivasamy]

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Hi Russell,

Thanks for the input. I tried with Pstotext, and it worked fine in
converting postscript doc to text. It will be of more helpful if there
is a way to *tune* ghostscript to return back the text directly. 

Pls, mail U'r comments..

Thanks & Regards,
Raj.


> > Rajkumar Wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Russell wrote:
> Not that I know about.  The best of the tools you mention
> is probably pstotext.  However this can be confused by
> PostScript or PDF files that contain (I think) embedded
> Type 42 (TrueType) fonts.
> 
> pstotext can give you either the text with line breaks as
> shown on the page, or it can give you each word separately
> with a bounding box for the word.  The latter is what I use
> from GSview, since it allows me to highlight selected words
> or the result of a "find".
>

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