ghostscript

{
  "aliases": [
    "gs"
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    "ImageMagick",
    "poppler",
    "mupdf",
    "Apache PDFBox"
  ],
  "build_dependencies": [
    "pkgconf"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "interpreter",
    "pdf-tool",
    "conversion"
  ],
  "caveats": "Ghostscript is now built `--without-versioned-path`. Temporary backwards\ncompatibility symlinks exist but will be removed with 10.07.0 release.\n",
  "conflicts_with": [
    "gambit-scheme",
    "gerbil-scheme"
  ],
  "dependencies": [
    "fontconfig",
    "freetype",
    "jbig2dec",
    "jpeg-turbo",
    "leptonica",
    "libarchive",
    "libidn",
    "libpng",
    "libtiff",
    "little-cms2",
    "openjpeg",
    "tesseract"
  ],
  "deprecated": 0,
  "deprecation_reason": null,
  "desc": "Interpreter for PostScript and PDF",
  "disable_reason": null,
  "disabled": 0,
  "enrichment_fetched_at": "2026-06-20T23:38:01+00:00",
  "first_seen": "2026-06-20T23:34:18+00:00",
  "full_name": "ghostscript",
  "github_default_branch": null,
  "github_last_commit_at": null,
  "github_readme_excerpt": null,
  "github_repo": null,
  "github_stars": null,
  "github_topics": [],
  "homepage": "https://www.ghostscript.com/",
  "homepage_og_description": null,
  "homepage_og_image": null,
  "homepage_title": "Ghostscript",
  "installs_30d": 35669,
  "installs_365d": 272679,
  "installs_90d": 81598,
  "keg_only": 0,
  "keg_only_reason": null,
  "last_seen": "2026-06-20T23:34:18+00:00",
  "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
  "llm_generated_at": "2026-06-20T23:43:11+00:00",
  "llm_model": "claude-haiku-4-5",
  "name": "ghostscript",
  "oldnames": [],
  "one_liner": "PostScript and PDF interpreter with rendering, conversion, and text extraction capabilities.",
  "optional_dependencies": [],
  "rank_30d": 171,
  "rank_365d": 234,
  "rank_90d": 210,
  "raw_hash": "05511b663b9b1a8f",
  "recommended_dependencies": [],
  "revision": 0,
  "ruby_source_path": "Formula/g/ghostscript.rb",
  "tap": "homebrew/core",
  "test_dependencies": [],
  "uses_from_macos": [
    "expat"
  ],
  "version_head": "HEAD",
  "version_stable": "10.07.1",
  "versioned_formulae": [],
  "why_use_this": "Ghostscript is the de facto standard for converting, rendering, and manipulating PostScript and PDF files on Unix systems. Use it in build pipelines to rasterize PDFs to images, extract text, or merge documents; it\u0027s a common runtime dependency for print systems, document servers, and ImageMagick workflows."
}