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On Fri, 16 May 2014, Peter Billam wrote:

> ps2txt is part of the (debian) package ghostscript

ps2txt is actually a symlink to ps2ascii.  I say this because there is 
also pstotext which is in its own package, and which may give different 
results again.

I generally use pdftotext but I have been known to try them all if I get 
marginal results in converting a document.  pdftotext also has some nice 
features like -raw and -layout which can change the formatting of the 
output, useful if there's tables that you need to read across rather than 
by column.

Geoff.