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Ghostscript Enterprise

Ghostscript Enterprise is a commercial version of GhostPDL which can also read and process a range of common office documents, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

File Support

File type	File extension
Word	`docx` `doc` `dotx` `docm` `dotm`
Open Office Word	`odt`
Excel	`xlsx` `xls` `xlt` `xlsm` `xltm`
PowerPoint	`pptx` `ppt` `pps` `pptm`
Text	`txt` `csv`

Licensing

If you are interested in using Ghostscript Enterprise, please contact our sales team to discuss a commercial license. Each Artifex commercial license is crafted based on your individual use case.

Using

Once you have acquired a commercial license agreement you will be supplied with a built binary (gse) for your system to run Ghostscript Enterprise.

Use Ghostscript Enterprise in the regular way in which you would use Ghostscript itself.
Just declare your device, your output & input files and then any other optional parameters as required.
Ensure to run your commands against your gse binary as opposed to any other installation of Ghostscript.

Interpreter flags

Ghostscript Enterprise specific interpreter flags are as follows:

Flag name	Description
`-sSOLOCALE`	The locale to set for the document.
`-sSOPASSWORD`	The password to set to open the file.

Examples

Create a PDF file from a Word file

A simple use case to create a new PDF document from a Word document.

./gse -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o output.pdf input.docx

Convert a Word document into a series of image files

This snippet outputs files in PNG image format, one per page at a 300 DPI resolution.

./gse -sDEVICE=png16m -o output%d.png -r300 input.docx

Extracting text

A simple use-case of extracting text from a PowerPoint file.

./gse -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pptx

Handle a password protected document

Here we send through a password to ensure we can open a password-protected file.

./gse -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt -sSOPASSWORD=clyde30 password-is-clyde30.docx

Handle a document with a specific locale

In this snippet, the document locale should be set to Korean, so text extraction knows to use Korean versions of characters that are shared with other languages.

./gse -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt -sSOLOCALE=ko-kr input.xls

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