PowerPoint Text Extractor

📊 A Python CLI tool that extracts text from PowerPoint presentations and exports it to CSV format. Perfect for content analysis, text mining, and presentation archiving.

A simple command-line tool to extract text content from PowerPoint presentations (.pptx/.ppt files) and save it to CSV format.

Features

• Extracts text from all slides in a PowerPoint presentation
• Preserves slide numbers in the output
• Saves extracted text to a CSV file with the same name as the input file
• Handles both .pptx and .ppt file formats

Installation

1. Ensure you have Python 3.x installed
2. Install the required dependencies:

pip install python-pptx

Usage

python pptx-to-csv.py <path_to_powerpoint_file>

Example:

python pptx-to-csv.py presentation.pptx

This will create a CSV file named presentation.csv in the same directory as your input file.

Output Format

The generated CSV file contains two columns:

• slide_number: The slide number in the presentation
• text_content: All text content extracted from that slide

Error Handling

The script includes error handling for:

• Non-existent input files
• Invalid file formats (non-PowerPoint files)
• Processing errors during text extraction

License

MIT License