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Article #258Re: Parsing the postscript content
From: DBW
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:54
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:54
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In article <1140170414.573596.279720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, "apondu" <apondu@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to extract the text content of the postscript file and put > it into to a text file, in simple words i am trying to parse the > postscript files. Can anyone suggest or provide the code or the dll > which does this. I am using the C#.Net for my parsing. > If you have a long text editor with a Grep Search and Replace facility you can extract the ascii text between the ( and ) PS delimiters by using: Find (.[^\(]*)\((.[^\)]*) Replace \2 \r Note the space before \r However, much DTP software produces binary or octal PS files and the only way is to distill the original PS into PDF and use OCR to extract the text. DB-W
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