Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to txt:Text *.odp

Hi Trever,

Trever L. Adams schrieb:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am strugling with something. I need to dump the text out of
> presentation files (Impress, PowerPoint, anything that LibreOffice
> Impress can read).
>
> The problem, I can convert to pdf, but not text. Is there any reason
> why? After all, grabbing text strings should be easy. However, I get the
> following
>
> $ libreoffice --headless --convert-to txt:Text FilterPresentation.odp
> convert /tmp/FilterPresentation.odp -> /tmp/FilterPresentation.txt using
> Text
> Overwriting: /tmp/FilterPresentation.txt
> Error: Please reverify input parameters...
>
> Also, why is it that I cannot have any instance of libreoffice running
> and have this work at all? (This is testing with open windows, will it
> work with just --headless?? I need to be able to do batch jobs that may
> overlap.)
>
> Thank you for any help anyone may have.

Why do you need text? Because a typical slide has text not only in the 
presentation objects but also in graphic objects, it seem useless to me. 
I do not see an export filter to text in the UI. Where do you find an 
information about such a filter?

Have you considered to use the file format "OpenDocument Presentation 
(Flat XML)"? You get a human readable XML file, which you can process 
then, for example with an XSLT filter, oder store by a control system. 
This format is specified in ODF as well.

Kind regards
Regina


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