Having tried various combinations of 'strings' and 'sed', I have
concluded that the text cannot be reliably extracted without some
more intelligent parsing of the PPT format. OO obviously performs
this parsing since all the PPT files open flawlessly in
OpenOffice.org Impress.
Is there any way I can, using OpenOffice.org, create a macro to
extract the text from all of these files? There must be something
better than 1500 copy/paste operations!
Greg,
1) there is not save to text in OOo for presentation files.
2) all the contents is there in the converted OD file, in the xml
3) there was recently an annoucement about an OOo batch conversion
utility
with 3) you transform the PPT files to OD format, since 1) you can't
use that directly but thanks to 2) and smart XML parsers/conversion
tools you can readily access the textual data by removing _all_ the
xml tags.
I have never tried that because I never _had_ to dump to text but my
feeling is that what you ask, although a little unorthodox is
possible with a few tricks.
Jean-Christophe
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