Re: How to extract text and image information from postscript file

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From: Dov Isaacs
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:05

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First of all, PostScript is not a "text" file. It can and often does contain binary data. Since PostScript streams often contain nested procedures, unless you process the procedure definitions and can "execute" them, you cannot simply "scan" a file to get what you want. No, I can't talk about this in detail since it is quite complex. But Adobe does have the PostScript Language Reference Manual on-line for download at <http://www.adobe.com/devnet/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf>. Look that over and you will have a fairly healthy respect as to the task involved.

- Dov

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