Is it possible to convert PDF to TXT file using GhostScript?

Question

Someone wants to convert PDF to TXT as explained in C# GhostScript - Not able to successfully convert from PDF to TXT file.

I am not sure whether GhostScript can do that. Is it possible?

Answer 1

command line tool pdftotext, part of the Xpdf open source project

NAME
       pdftotext - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.00)
SYNOPSIS
       pdftotext [options] [PDF-file [text-file]]
DESCRIPTION
       Pdftotext converts Portable Document Format (PDF) files to plain text.
   Pdftotext  reads  the  PDF file, PDF-file, and writes a text file, text-file.  If text-file is not specified, pdftotext con-
   verts file.pdf to file.txt.  If text-file is ´-', the text is sent to stdout.

further details in the pdftotext man page

Answer 2

Yes. It is absolutely possible. Using the following batch file.

rem batch.bat
rem %1 represents input file name without extension.
echo off
gswin32c -q -dNODISPLAY -dSAFER -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dSIMPLE -c save -f ps2ascii.ps %1.pdf -c quit >%1.txt