Parsing Postscript

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toadi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi,

I've been looking around to find a module that parses postscript files. I need to parse big postscript files and get the data out of it.

But I can't find any modules it seems. Does someone here have some experience in doing this. It would be much appreciated.

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Re: Parsing Postscript by herveus (Prior) on Jul 22, 2004 at 07:13 UTC
Howdy! What sort of data are you looking to extract? The text? Page info? Your question is too vague to answer... I've done a tiny bit, generating a table of contents, by depending on the fairly rigid structure in the file -- something I can depend on because I control the generation of the PostScript itself. yours, Michael	[reply]
Re^2: Parsing Postscript by toadi (Chaplain) on Jul 22, 2004 at 08:04 UTC
Well both. I got a big postscript page with several pages. Need to parse page info and data. -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right	[reply]
Re^3: Parsing Postscript by herveus (Prior) on Jul 22, 2004 at 12:54 UTC
Howdy! OK. Can you be more precise about what you expect to get out of the postscript file? Your question remains exceedingly vague -- sufficient to make it unanswerable. Do you have any prior knowledge or control over the format of the postscript? Are there any assumptions you can make that would simplify the task of running it by a set of regexen, or something of the sort? yours, Michael	[reply]
Re: Parsing Postscript by ambrus (Abbot) on Jul 22, 2004 at 09:09 UTC
If you install ghostscript, it will install a script called `ps2ascii` that executes the ps with gs and outputs the text of it. Only the text, no other info. It may give better or worse results, depending on the ps file: it works reasonably with plain English text in the ps, but not with maths formulae or international characters.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Parsing Postscript by toadi (Chaplain) on Jul 22, 2004 at 10:27 UTC
We'll that will be a problem. Need those chars... -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right	[reply]
Re: Parsing Postscript by Anonymous Monk on Jul 23, 2004 at 00:09 UTC
Super Search	[reply]
Re^2: Parsing Postscript by toadi (Chaplain) on Jul 23, 2004 at 10:10 UTC
I used supersearch. I just wanted to know if there is any post script module or library out there I maybe missed. It looks like there is none, so I will roll my own. -- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right	[reply]

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