pstotext does not work with recent ghostscript versions. Use catdvi instead of dvips+pstotext for dvi, and ps2pdf+pdftotext for postscript

src/Makefile.am

@@ -670,6 +670,7 @@ filters/rcllyx \
 filters/rclman \
 filters/rclmidi.py \
 filters/rclpdf.py \
+filters/rclps \
 filters/rclokulnote.py \
 filters/rclopxml.py \
 filters/rclppt.py \

src/filters/rcldvi

@@ -18,10 +18,15 @@
 
 #
 # Extract text from a dvi file by either executing dvitops and
-# pstotext or using catdvi. dvitops has given better results during
+# pstotext or using catdvi.
-# tests, and is chosen first if available, but the dvitops/pstotext
+#
-# combination is much slower than catdvi set variables. In any case,
+# pstotext does not work any more with gs 9.22-25, so catdvi is always
-# the program is not too good with special characters (e.g. ligatures)
+# needed now.
+#    Initially dvitops had given better results during tests, and was
+#    chosen first if available, but the dvitops/pstotext combination
+#    is much slower than catdvi set variables. In any case, the
+#    program is not too good with special characters (e.g. ligatures)
+
 LANG=C ; export LANG
 LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
 progname="rcldvi"
@@ -100,21 +105,27 @@ decoderdvips()
 }
 decodercatdvi()
 {
-    catdvi $1
+    catdvi --output-encoding=UTF-8 $1
 }
 decoder=""
-iscmd dvips
-isdvips=$?
-iscmd pstotext
-ispstotext=$?
-if test $isdvips -eq 0 -a $ispstotext -eq 0; then
-  decoder=decoderdvips
-elif iscmd catdvi ; then
-  decoder=decodercatdvi
-fi
 
+# pstotext does not work any more
+# iscmd dvips
+# isdvips=$?
+# iscmd pstotext
+# ispstotext=$?
+# if test $isdvips -eq 0 -a $ispstotext -eq 0; then
+#   decoder=decoderdvips
+# elif iscmd catdvi ; then
+#   decoder=decodercatdvi
+# fi
+
+if iscmd catdvi ; then
+    decoder=decodercatdvi
+fi
+ 
 if test X$decoder = X ; then
-   senderror HELPERNOTFOUND dvips or catdvi
+   senderror HELPERNOTFOUND catdvi
 fi
 
 # The strange 'BEGIN' setup is to prevent 'file' from thinking this file

src/filters/rclps

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+# 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+
+#
+# Extract text from a postscript file
+#
+# We used to use pstotext but it does not work any more with gs 9.22-25
+# So we now go through pdf, which seems the only way to obtain non-ascii output
+# 
+
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rcldvi"
+filetype=dvi
+
+
+#RECFILTCOMMONCODE
+##############################################################################
+# !! Leave the previous line unmodified!! Code imported from the
+# recfiltcommon file
+
+# Utility code common to all shell filters. This could be sourced at run
+# time, but it's slightly more efficient to include the code in the
+# filters at build time (with a sed script).
+
+# Describe error in a way that can be interpreted by our caller
+senderror()
+{
+    echo RECFILTERROR $*
+    # Also alert on stderr just in case
+    echo ":2:$progname::: $*" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+iscmd()
+{
+    cmd=$1
+    case $cmd in
+    */*)
+	if test -x $cmd -a ! -d $cmd ; then return 0; else return 1; fi ;;
+    *)
+      oldifs=$IFS; IFS=":"; set -- $PATH; IFS=$oldifs
+      for d in $*;do test -x $d/$cmd -a ! -d $d/$cmd && return 0;done
+      return 1 ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+checkcmds()
+{
+    for cmd in $*;do
+      if iscmd $cmd 
+      then 
+        a=1
+      else 
+        senderror HELPERNOTFOUND $cmd
+      fi
+    done
+}
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help" 
+then
+  echo "Convert a $filetype file to HTML text for Recoll indexing."
+  echo "Usage: $progname [infile]"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$1"
+
+# check the input file existence (may be '-' for stdin)
+if test "X$infile" != X- -a ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  senderror INPUTNOSUCHFILE "$infile"
+fi
+
+# protect access to our temp files and directories
+umask 77
+
+##############################################################################
+# !! Leave the following line unmodified !
+#ENDRECFILTCOMMONCODE
+
+checkcmds ps2pdf pdftotext
+
+ps2pdf "$infile" - | pdftotext -htmlmeta -enc UTF-8 -eol unix -q - - | \
+    egrep -v '^<title>.*</title>$'
+

src/sampleconf/mimeconf

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ application/vnd.ms-office = execm rcldoc.py
 
 application/ogg = execm rclaudio
 application/pdf = execm rclpdf.py
-application/postscript = exec pstotext;charset=cp1252;mimetype=text/plain
+application/postscript = exec rclps
 application/sql = internal text/plain
 application/vnd.ms-excel = execm rclxls.py
 application/vnd.ms-powerpoint = execm rclppt.py