How To Install pstotext on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pstotext on Ubuntu 22.04. pstotext is Extract text from PostScript and PDF files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pstotext on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is pstotext

pstotext is:

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.

There are three methods to install pstotext on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pstotext Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pstotext using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pstotext

Install pstotext Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pstotext using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pstotext

Install pstotext Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install pstotext using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pstotext

How To Uninstall pstotext on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the pstotext package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pstotext

Uninstall pstotext And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pstotext and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pstotext

Remove pstotext Configurations and Data

To remove pstotext configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pstotext

Remove pstotext configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pstotext configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pstotext

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pstotext package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.