One suggestion: convert to .pdf - from here you can view all in order to do whatever; as: 'select all' text --> delete; the images would remain yet the text would be gone. Then you could 'save as' in whatever form you desire.
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Trever L. Adams <trever.ad...@gmail.com>wrote: Hello Everyone, > > I am struggling 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. > > Trever > > -- 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