Forum OpenACS Development: Converting Powerpoint slides to text

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1: Converting Powerpoint slides to text
Posted by Dirk Gomez on 08/05/05 10:00 AM
For search I need to convert powerpoint slides to text. Firstly I tried catppt but it infinitely looped and eventually made .LRN come to a halt.

Right now i use strings but it doesn't do a particularly good job.

What's a good *free* tool?

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2: Re: Converting Powerpoint slides to text (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 08/05/05 12:02 PM
Hi Dirk,

I highly recommend xlhtml project. It contains

- Excel 2 HTML converter xlhtml
- Powerpoint to HTML converter ppthtml

The result is returned to standard out. If you pipe that through a proc that strips out the HTML tags you have a clean and fast solution:

Sources:
http://chicago.sourceforge.net/xlhtml/

Reference:
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/05/26/textonly.html

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3: Re: Converting Powerpoint slides to text (response to 1)
Posted by Gary Roesler on 08/05/05 09:47 PM
Nima is right xlhtml is what i used for my search procs... i just did a little tweaking to the source before compiling it to improve performance and error problems
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4: Re: Converting Powerpoint slides to text (response to 1)
Posted by Dirk Gomez on 08/05/05 11:16 PM
Gary, on which platform did you deploy? I am having problems compiling on Solaris and the xlhtml mailing list suggests I am not the first one - did you happen to deploy on Solaris?
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5: Re: Converting Powerpoint slides to text (response to 1)
Posted by Gary Roesler on 08/09/05 07:18 PM
Sorry Dirk,
My system runs on Mandrake
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6: Re: Converting Powerpoint slides to text (response to 1)
Posted by Tournier Cyril on 04/27/06 11:13 AM
Hi!

I met some problems to install XHTML..
I tried the "./configure" and then the "make && make install" but unforunately the command is not recognize..
Do you know what I can do???

Many Thanks
Cyril