This short guide describes how to extract text from PowerPoint using Python. It has details to set the IDE, a list of steps, and a sample code to convert PowerPoint to text using Python. Various techniques will be discussed to fetch text from the slides.

Steps to Extract Text from PPTX using Python

1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET to extract text
2. Import the desired classes from the library and the SlideUtil utility class
3. Define the input/output file paths and load the license
4. Load the source PowerPoint presentation into the Presentation object
5. Use the SlideUtil.get_all_text_frames for extracting all text frames from every slide
6. Parse through all the text frames and their paragraphs to collect individual text portions
7. Process each frame and append slide contents in a new line
8. Save all the collected text portions and save the output to a TXT file

These steps explain the process to develop a PPTX to text converter using Python. Load the presentation, get all text frames from it, parse each paragraph in all the frames, and fetch text from portions in them. Save all the collected data in a text file with a line separator for each text segment.

Code for PowerPoint to Text Converter using Python

This code shows how to convert PPTX to TXT using Python. Instead of scanning the whole presentation at once, you can access each slide separately and process it to fetch text from the selected slides only. Another option is that you do not load the presentation into memory and just use the file path to extract its text with a flag to pull text in the arranged order, as original or in a flat order.

This short article guides on extracting text from a PPTX. To convert a presentation to video, refer to the article Convert PowerPoint to video using Python.