Search Text in PPTX Presentations with Python

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Search Text in a PPTX 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 PPTX Presentation - Python

with slides.Presentation("presentation.pptx") 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 PPTX via Python

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

Open the PPTX 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 PPTX 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 PPTX files.

Runs in your browser, nothing to install.
See how Aspose.Slides finds text before you write code.
Search your PPTX 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.