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Is there a utility to convert a PostScript file into my favorite word processors format?

April 26, 2017convert favorite file format Postscript processors utility word

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Is there a utility to convert a PostScript file into my favorite word processors format?

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Short answer: no. Long answer: Maybe. There is a utility to convert PostScript files into ASCII files (it tries to extract the text), but it can not work on every PostScript file. The problem here is that PostScript is a full programming language, and there are many ways to accomplish a given thing. It would be next to impossible for a program to look at some piece of PostScript and decide what the contents are. It would be possible to write a program which would accept some subset of PostScript files and convert them to some useful format, but it would be difficult to write (and it could not handle all possible PostScript files).