Re: [libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT

Hi Brian,

Your "messy workaround" was far more straight forward than my messier 
work around, which was to export to PDF then use OCR software to get the 
text.

I don't know why it didn't occur to me to select the text via the PDF 
reader..

Thank you.


Keith

On 12/10/12 16:02, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 14:37 12/10/2012 +1100, Keith Bates wrote:
> > I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a 
> > stupid question, I apologise.
>
> Not stupid at all ...
>
> > Someone has sent me a long presentation in ppt format which consists 
> > mainly of text. It is somewhat annoying to try to read and absorb the 
> > intent of the text.  Is there a simple way to extract the text from 
> > the entire slide show and save it as a text document- I don't care 
> > what format it is as long as it is on one page instead of 45?
>
> Here's a rather messy workaround:
> o Open the presentation in Impress.
> o Go to File | Export as PDF... to create a PDF copy.
> o Open the PDF copy in your favourite PDF reader and save as text from 
> there.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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God bless you
Keith Bates
Narrabri NSW

Jesus is the Way
the Truth and the Life


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