Programmatically converting/parsing LaTeX code to plain text

Question

I have a couple of code projects in C++/Python in which LaTeX-format descriptions and labels are used to generate PDF documentation or graphs made using LaTeX+pstricks. However,

Answer 1

I would try pandoc [enter link description here][1]. It is written in Haskell, but it is a really nice latex 2 whatever converter.

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html .