Search Text in ODP Presentations with Python

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Search Text in an ODP Presentation with Python

With Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET , you can use SlideUtil.get_text_boxes_contains_text to find text frames on each slide that contain a specified string.

Search Text in an ODP Presentation - Python

with slides.Presentation("presentation.odp") as presentation:
    for slide in presentation.slides:
        matching_text_frames = slides.util.SlideUtil.get_text_boxes_contains_text(slide, "PowerPoint", False)

        for text_frame in matching_text_frames:
            print(text_frame.text)

How to Search Text in ODP via Python

Follow these steps to search for text in an ODP presentation.

Open the ODP file with Presentation.
Iterate through the slides and call SlideUtil.get_text_boxes_contains_text for each one.
Read the text property of each matching text frame.

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Search Text in ODP Files Online

The free Aspose.Slides Search app is built with Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET, the same API as the code above. Open it and see what the API can do with your own ODP files.

Runs in your browser, nothing to install.
See how Aspose.Slides finds text before you write code.
Search your ODP file for plain text or regular expressions.
Download the matches as a text file.

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Other Supported Search Formats

Use Python to search for text in other supported presentation formats.