Hi,
I am having some issues with extracting text information from *.eps immage. Up until now i was just greping the show lines (example: 
 /ArialMT-ISOLatin1 findfont
    32 scalefont
    setfont
    0 0 0 setrgbcolor
    newpath
    0 0 moveto
    (King James) show
    grestore
    grestore
    grestore
    0 0 0 setrgbcolor
    [] 0 setdash
    5 setlinewidth
    0 setlinejoin
    1 setlinecap
    newpath
    -1013.087 5437.645 moveto
    -574.44269 5148.3467 lineto
    stroke
    0 0 0 setrgbcolor
    [] 0 setdash
    5 setlinewidth
    0 setlinejoin
    1 setlinecap
    newpath
    -801.10602 5042.689 moveto
    -683.66547 4973.3872 lineto
    stroke
    0 0 0 setrgbcolor
    [] 0 setdash
    5 setlinewidth
    0 setlinejoin
    0 setlinecap
    newpath
    -764.50114 5103.5574 moveto
    -789.24211 5063.1816 -813.3093 5022.3968 -836.69272 4981.22 curvet
+o
    stroke
    gsave [0.8480481 -0.52991926 0.52991926 0.8480481 -3204.0386 27.01
+0243]
    concat
    gsave [1 0 0 -1 -1554.9214 5600.4102] concat
    gsave
    /ArialMT-ISOLatin1 findfont
    32 scalefont
    setfont
    0 0 0 setrgbcolor
    newpath
    0 0 moveto
    (M. L. King) show
    ...

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) to get the information, but then I relized taht the names are not in the same order as in the figure. in the figure M.L.King is before King James. So, is there some proffessional tool (perl module) made for such manipulations?

thnx

b

In reply to eps file parser needed by baxy77bax

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