python psdtextextract.py myimage.psd "This is"will result in "This is a text layer." if that's the text your layer indeed contains. To find a sample of the text you can use any image viewer such as gwenview. Quite stupid, I know, but it works ;)
Inline source code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-
from codecs import encode, decode
def get_next_occurence(text, buf, start):
text = encode(text, "utf-16")[2:] # cut BOM
index = buf.find(text, start)
if index == -1:
return b"", -1
end = buf.find(b'\x00\x00', index)
if end == -1:
return b"", -1
chunk = b'\x00' + buf[index:end + 2]
return chunk.replace(b'\x5C', b''), end
def get_all_occurences(text, buf):
start = 0
items = []
while start != -1:
try:
found, start = get_next_occurence(text, buf, start)
items.append(decode(found, "utf-16be").replace('\r', '\n'))
except UnicodeDecodeError as e:
continue
print(" - undecodable match skipped:", e)
return items
if __name__ == '__main__':
import sys
if len(sys.argv) > 4 or len(sys.argv) < 3:
print("Usage: psdtextextract.py file.psd pattern [display-all-matches]")
with open(sys.argv[1], 'rb') as f:
items = get_all_occurences(sys.argv[2], f.read())
if "display-all-matches" not in sys.argv:
print(items[0])
else:
for item in items:
print(item)
