How to Install and Uninstall pstotext Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "pstotext" package

This guide let you learn how to install pstotext on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                pstotext
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "pstotext" package

Learn how to uninstall pstotext on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                pstotext
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the pstotext package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: pstotext
Priority: optional
Section: universe/text
Installed-Size: 123
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jan Jeroným Zvánovec
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.9-6
Depends: ghostscript, libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/p/pstotext/pstotext_1.9-6_amd64.deb
Size: 33658
MD5sum: 434ae203fe497423ce810632c16a102c
SHA1: 9be8b9f2f096bbbca16c5212986a0874e8ebc37a
SHA256: 014f03b4132e262b6b59e2020d5631298e53809847f17a03eecd18c62a5d6f7d
Description-en: Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
pstotext extracts text (in the ISO 8859-1 character set) from a PostScript
or PDF (Portable Document Format) file. Thus, pstotext is similar to the
ps2ascii program that comes with ghostscript. The output of pstotext is
however better than that of ps2ascii, because pstotext deals better with
punctuation and ligatures.
Description-md5: dc59676a4fc75ebffd5800ddffea20d3
Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/pstotext.htm
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu