Extract Text from PPT Presentations with Python

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Extract Text from a PPT Presentation with Python

Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET provides the get_all_text_frames static method on SlideUtil. It returns the TextFrame objects from an entire presentation and can include text from master slides. The following example extracts text and related font details from a PPT presentation.

Extract Text from a PPT Presentation - Python

include_master_slides = True

with slides.Presentation("presentation.ppt") as presentation:
    text_frames = slides.util.SlideUtil.get_all_text_frames(presentation, include_master_slides)

    for text_frame in text_frames:
        for paragraph in text_frame.paragraphs:
            for portion in paragraph.portions:
                print(portion.text)

                font_height = portion.portion_format.font_height
                print(font_height)

                latin_font = portion.portion_format.latin_font
                if latin_font is not None:
                    print(latin_font.font_name)

How to Extract Text from PPT with Python

Follow these steps to extract text from a PPT file.

  1. Open the PPT file with Presentation.
  2. Call SlideUtil.get_all_text_frames and specify whether to include master slides.
  3. Iterate through the returned TextFrame objects.
  4. Iterate through each text frame’s paragraphs collection.
  5. Iterate through each paragraph’s portions collection.
  6. Read the current portion’s text and formatting properties.

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Other Supported Parsing Formats

Use Python to extract text from other supported presentation formats.