Aaron Misquith <aaronmisqu...@gmail.com> Wrote in message: > The only thing i want from the ppt's is text and ignoring all graphical representations. I > need the text to perform various nltk operations.
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> > wrote: >> Bearing in mind that Powerpoint is intended for graphical presentations the >> text >> elements are not necessarily going to be useful. Often Powerpoint text >> is actually part of a graphic anyway. 1. please don't top-post. Place your comments after the quoted text from the previous message. Please tell your mail program to use text, not html when posting here. 2. Alan has pointed out that there may not be any text in the ppt file, but just image data that represents the text. Similar to the way a scanned piece of paper has no text till you try to ocr it. -- DaveA _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
