Hey guys, feature request for you. I’ve noticed a fair number of people on the forum asking about how to extract text from powerpoints … I know that it can be done, but only by manually looping through various collections in your API
So, the feature request: Add a method to Presentation and PresentationEx called GetText (just like the method in the Words dll), and have it return a string. Nice and simple, and will end all of the support question for you! You may want to allow people the option of passing in a separator string that you put in between each text fragment
Thanks for your consideration
Brian.
Dear Brian,
We will consider your request of adding this feature. Please also see the recently added technical tip, you might consider it to modify for your own specific needs.
http://www.aspose.com/documentation/file-format-components/aspose.slides-for-.net-and-java/extract-entire-text-from-a-presentation.html
Great, thanks. This tip is great for ppt files, but the API for pptx is different. It would be nice to see this article expanded to show the code for pptx files
Yes, thank you for that. What I had found with extracting text from ppt is that there are several different posts on your forums showing how to extract the text, until I saw that technical article I wasn’t sure which was the “right” way … I even remember a comment from a Aspose staff member saying something like “we don’t provide a method to extract text because it is very simple” … it’s not simple
For pptx it also looks like there are already a few different ways to do it … you yourself posted 2 very different ways in the very thread you just linked to.
Hopefully you can see why it’s so confusing … to me it is a no-brainer that there should be a single method for extracting text … the only thing I’m using the Slides component for is to extract the text, and I have to maintain quite a bit of code to do what should be very simple. This is one small part of my application, and I’ve spent way too much time on it … I don’t have time to learn the API or the in’s and out’s of the differences between ppt and pptx … I just want the text
Sorry for sounding a bit negative, I know you guys like feedback, so this is it. Your support response times are outstanding and I do appreciate it
Brian.
Same comment.
Hi,
I got text to extract.
Good code samples.
Hi,