VeryDOC Postscript to Text Converter SDK does convert Postscript files to text files,
https://www.verydoc.com/ps-to-text.html
https://www.verydoc.com/ps2txt.zip
The following is the VB, VB.NET and C# examples for Postscript to Text Converter SDK product,
VB example,
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Private Declare Function VeryPDF_PSToText Lib "ps2txtsdk.dll" (ByVal strCommandLine As String) As Long
Private Sub ps2txt_Click()
Dim nRet As Long
Dim strCmd As String
strCmd = "ps2txt -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
strCmd = strCmd & " C:\test.ps"
strCmd = strCmd & " C:\test.txt"
nRet = VeryPDF_PSToText(strCmd)
MsgBox (Str(nRet))
End Sub
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This the VB.NET example,
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Public Class Form1
Private Declare Function VeryPDF_PSToText Lib "ps2txtsdk.dll" (ByVal strCommandLine As String) As Integer
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim nRet As Long
Dim strCmd As String
Dim strInPDFFile As String
Dim strOutFile As String
strInPDFFile = Application.StartupPath() & "\test.ps"
strOutFile = Application.StartupPath() & "\vb_net_test.txt"
strCmd = "ps2txt -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
strCmd = strCmd & " """ & strInPDFFile & """"
strCmd = strCmd & " """ & strOutFile & """"
MsgBox(strCmd)
nRet = VeryPDF_PSToText(strCmd)
MsgBox(Str(nRet))
End Sub
End Class
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This is the C# source code to convert PS file to Text file,
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[DllImport("ps2txtsdk.dll")]
internal static extern int VeryPDF_PSToText(string strCommandLine);
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string appPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(Application.ExecutablePath);
string strCmd = string.Empty;
string psFile = appPath + "\\test.ps";
string txtFile = appPath + "\\_out_C#_test.txt";
int nRet;
strCmd = "ps2txt -$ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX " + "\"" + psFile + "\" " + "\"" + txtFile + "\" ";
MessageBox.Show(strCmd);
nRet = VeryPDF_PSToText(strCmd);
}
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