[Tutor] Library for .ppt to .txt conversion

[Aaron Misquith]

The only thing i want from the ppt's is text and ignoring all graphical
representations. I need the text to perform various nltk operations.


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 30/05/14 10:41, Aaron Misquith wrote:
>
>> Like pypdf is used to convert pdf to text; is there any library that is
>> used in converting .ppt files to .txt? Even some sample programs will be
>> helpful.
>>
>
> Bearing in mind that Powerpoint is intended for graphical presentations
> the text elements are not necessarily going to be useful. Often Powerpoint
> text is actually part of a graphic anyway.
>
> If the Powerpoint is just a set of bullet points (shame on the presenter!)
> you probably don't want the text unless you can
> also get the notes. I don't know of any libraries that can do that.
>
> But one option  is that Open/Libre office can import Powerpoint and
> apparently has a Python API which you could use to drive an export
> from there. Just a thought...
>
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