Remove Comments & Comment Authors from ODP in Python

Build your own Python scripts to manipulate comments & authors in document files using server-side APIs.

Remove Comments from ODP via Python

In order to remove annotations from the ODP file, we’ll use Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET API which is a feature-rich, powerful and easy to use document manipulation API for Python platform.

Delete Annotations from ODP - Python
import aspose.slides as slides

with slides.Presentation("example.odp") as presentation:
    # Deletes all comments from the presentation
    for author in presentation.comment_authors:
        author.comments.clear()

    # Deletes all authors
    presentation.comment_authors.clear()

    presentation.save("example_out.pptx", slides.export.SaveFormat.PPTX)

How to Remove Comments from ODP via Python

Install Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET. See Installation .
Load ODP with an instance of Presentation class
Iterate over all Authors of loaded ODP
Remove all Comments of an author
Remove all Authors at the end

Other Supported Annotation Formats

Using Python, one can easily annotate other formats including.

PPTX

PPT