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<entry id="pstotext"
       datestamp="1996/10/31" 
       modifier="Graham.Williams@cmis.csiro.au">
  <about>
    <name>pstotext</name>
    <caption>Extract ASCII from PostScript and PDF.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Andrew Birrell</name>
      <email>birrell@pa.dec.com</email>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Paul McJones</name>
      <email>paul.mcjones@acm.org</email>
    </author>
    <license type="dfsg"/>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      A free Unix program that extracts ASCII text from
      PostScript and PDF (Acrobat) files. pstotext uses <xref
      refid="ghostscript">GhostScript</xref>, but does a more
      careful job with kerned characters and nonstandard font
      encodings than Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility.
    </abstract>
  </description>
</entry>

