How to convert a PowerPoint PPTX to Text TXT in Python

The typical process of converting a PPTX presentation into plain text is a long and boring one. That’s not really a problem, though, if you follow this quick tutorial. We will be skipping all of that hassle.

With pip install, add our Convert API Client:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

We can now write our function call for convert_document_pptx_to_txt. This will need to include an API instance, created with a key. Here is an example of how this might look:

from __future__ import print_function
import time
import cloudmersive_convert_api_client
from cloudmersive_convert_api_client.rest import ApiException
from pprint import pprint
# Configure API key authorization: Apikey
configuration = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.Configuration()
configuration.api_key['Apikey'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'
# Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
# configuration.api_key_prefix['Apikey'] = 'Bearer'
# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ConvertDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
try:
# Convert PowerPoint PPTX Presentation to Text (txt)
api_response = api_instance.convert_document_pptx_to_txt(input_file)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling ConvertDocumentApi->convert_document_pptx_to_txt: %s\n" % e)

And there you have our completed solution. All that’s left is to put in your request and you will have your results in no time.