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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Converting PS to ASCII
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On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Khelbin Sunvold wrote:

> 
> Is there any program available on the net or installed with FreeBSD that
> will allow a person to convert PostScript to ASCII? 

If you have the Ghostscript package, it includes a `ps2ascii' converter
for converting PostScript to ASCII.  More correctly, it extracts the ASCII
text from the PostScript file and tries to format it; it doesn't do the
best job since this is inexact science.  :)

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