ps2ascii

[Gerold Böhler-2]

Hi all,

i am using the following command line to extract text from a pdf via  
ghostscript:

gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c  
save -f ps2ascii.ps file.pdf -c quit

i stole this from ps2ascii and i call it from within a ruby script.
Everything works fine, i just would like to extract the content of a  
single page and not the entire document.
Is that possible with ghostscript?

Thanks and regards,

Gerold Böhler


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[Ray Johnston]

Hi Gerald,

What you request is easily done. Ghostscript has -dFirstPage=##
-dLastPage=## command line options for PDF files. These options
should precede the -c option.

Regards,
Ray
_______________________________________________________________

Gerold Böhler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> i am using the following command line to extract text from a pdf via
> ghostscript:
>
> gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c save
> -f ps2ascii.ps file.pdf -c quit
>
> i stole this from ps2ascii and i call it from within a ruby script.
> Everything works fine, i just would like to extract the content of a
> single page and not the entire document.
> Is that possible with ghostscript?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Gerold Böhler
>
>
> --
> reloc
> Dipl. Ing. FH Gerold Böhler
> Zeughausgasse 8
> A-6800 Feldkirch
>
> [phone]
> gerold@...
> http://www.reloc.org
>
>
>
>
>
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[Gerold Böhler-2]

Hi Ray,

thanks for the quick answer, works great.

Kind regards,

Gerold


On Sep 20, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Ray Johnston wrote:

> Hi Gerald,
>
> What you request is easily done. Ghostscript has -dFirstPage=##
> -dLastPage=## command line options for PDF files. These options
> should precede the -c option.
>
> Regards,
> Ray
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> Gerold Böhler wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> i am using the following command line to extract text from a pdf  
>> via ghostscript:
>> gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c  
>> save -f ps2ascii.ps file.pdf -c quit
>> i stole this from ps2ascii and i call it from within a ruby script.
>> Everything works fine, i just would like to extract the content of  
>> a single page and not the entire document.
>> Is that possible with ghostscript?
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Gerold Böhler
>> --
>> reloc
>> Dipl. Ing. FH Gerold Böhler
>> Zeughausgasse 8
>> A-6800 Feldkirch
>> [phone]
>> gerold@...
>> http://www.reloc.org
>> _______________________________________________
>> gs-devel mailing list
>> gs-devel@...
>> http://www.ghostscript.com/mailman/listinfo/gs-devel
>

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[Gerold Böhler-2]

Well i suppose my answer was a little premature :-)

This is what i try:

/usr/local/bin/gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT  
-dSIMPLE -f ps2ascii.ps 'file.pdf' -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1

and i always get all of the text from the pdf file.
I'm using ghostscript 8.70 via macports on snow leopard

Any more hints?

Thanks,

Gerold

               
On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Gerold Böhler wrote:

> Hi Ray,
>
> thanks for the quick answer, works great.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gerold
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Ray Johnston wrote:
>
>> Hi Gerald,
>>
>> What you request is easily done. Ghostscript has -dFirstPage=##
>> -dLastPage=## command line options for PDF files. These options
>> should precede the -c option.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ray
>> _______________________________________________________________
>>
>> Gerold Böhler wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> i am using the following command line to extract text from a pdf  
>>> via ghostscript:
>>> gs -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -
>>> c save -f ps2ascii.ps file.pdf -c quit
>>> i stole this from ps2ascii and i call it from within a ruby script.
>>> Everything works fine, i just would like to extract the content of  
>>> a single page and not the entire document.
>>> Is that possible with ghostscript?
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>> Gerold Böhler
>>> --
>>> reloc
>>> Dipl. Ing. FH Gerold Böhler
>>> Zeughausgasse 8
>>> A-6800 Feldkirch
>>> [phone]
>>> gerold@...
>>> http://www.reloc.org
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gs-devel mailing list
>>> gs-devel@...
>>> http://www.ghostscript.com/mailman/listinfo/gs-devel
>>
>
> --
> reloc
> Dipl. Ing. FH Gerold Böhler
> Zeughausgasse 8
> A-6800 Feldkirch
>
> [phone]
> gerold@...
> http://www.reloc.org
>
>
>
>
>
>

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