Search Text in PPT Presentations with Python

Build Python applications that find text in PowerPoint presentations with Aspose.Slides.

Search Text in a PPT 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 a PPT Presentation - Pythonwith slides.Presentation("presentation.ppt") 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 PPT via Python

Follow these steps to search for text in a PPT presentation.

Open the PPT 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.

Online PPT Search

Other Supported Search Formats

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

ODP

PPTX