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 -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT
Hello, Le 12/10/2012 05:37, Keith Bates a écrit : I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a stupid question, I apologise. 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? Just copy the text from Impress to Writer ;) Here's how: 1. Open the .ppt with Impress 2. Select Impress Outline mode (Outline thumbnail or View / Outline menu) 3. Ctrl+A 4. Ctrl+C 5. Open an empty Writer document 6. Ctrl+V Et voila! If you don't want to get the formatting into the Writer doc, at step 6, press Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V. -- Jean-Francois Nifenecker, Bordeaux -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT
Thank you, Jean-Francois. Works perfectly and fixes the formatting issues of the other methods. Keith On 12/10/12 17:51, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hello, Le 12/10/2012 05:37, Keith Bates a écrit : I don't use Impress, powerpoint etc much at all so if this is a stupid question, I apologise. 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? Just copy the text from Impress to Writer ;) Here's how: 1. Open the .ppt with Impress 2. Select Impress Outline mode (Outline thumbnail or View / Outline menu) 3. Ctrl+A 4. Ctrl+C 5. Open an empty Writer document 6. Ctrl+V Et voila! If you don't want to get the formatting into the Writer doc, at step 6, press Ctrl+Shift+V instead of Ctrl+V. -- God bless you Keith Bates Narrabri NSW Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Extract Text From PPT
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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
