PresentationTextExtractor class

Plugin for extracting text from the PowerPoint 97-2003 and Microsoft Office Open XML presentations.

process(inputPath: string, textExtractionMode: number): Promise<SlideText[]>

Extracts text from the input presentation using the specified mode.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
inputPath	string	The name of the input presentation file.
textExtractionMode	number	Text extraction mode (see TextExtractionMode)

Example

const rawSlidesText = await slidize.PresentationTextExtractor.process("presentation.pptx", slidize.TextExtractionMode.Unarranged);
for (let i = 0; i < rawSlidesText.length; i++)
{
	const slideText = rawSlidesText[i];
	// Print the text extracted from the slide
	console.log(slideText.text);
	// Print the text extracted from the master of the slide
	console.log(slideText.masterText);
	// Print the text extracted from the layout of the slide
	console.log(slideText.layoutText);
	// Print the notes text extracted from the slide
	console.log(slideText.notesText);
	// Print the comments text extracted from the slide
	console.log(slideText.commentsText);
}

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process(inputBuffer: Buffer, textExtractionMode: number): Promise<SlideText[]>

Extracts text from the input presentation using the specified mode.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
inputBuffer	Buffer	Input presentation as a Buffer.
textExtractionMode	number	Text extraction mode (see TextExtractionMode)

Example

const buffer = await fs.readFile("presentation.pptx"); 
const arrangedSlidesText = await slidize.PresentationTextExtractor.process(buffer, slidize.TextExtractionMode.Arranged);
for (let i = 0; i < arrangedSlidesText.length; i++)
{
	const slideText = arrangedSlidesText[i];
	// Save the arranged text extracted from the slide
	console.log(slideText.text);
}

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