Re: extract text from powerpoint

You may be able to use OpenOffice Impress and OpenOffice::UNO, though you'd need to do some further research.

Martin

Comment on Re: extract text from powerpoint

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: extract text from powerpoint by fionbarr (Friar) on Jan 05, 2010 at 16:31 UTC
thank you...I hadn't seen that reference though I have seen mention of using OO Impress to save the file as a DOC file and then look at that.	[reply]
Re^3: extract text from powerpoint by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 05, 2010 at 16:58 UTC
Well that's one approach. If I had to do this task I'd probably try using OpenOffice::UNO to automate the presentation opening, text selection and extract rather than save to another file format for parsing/extracting. Let us know how you get on. Martin	[reply]