How to split a single PowerPoint presentation PPTX into separate slides in Python

Today we will be looking at splitting up multi-slide PowerPoint presentations into multiple PPTX files, each with one of the individual slides. This is going to be an absolute snap for you Python users out there. Keep reading.

The first step of our process is to pip install the Cloudmersive Convert API:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Now we shall proceed to instance our API and then use that for calling the split_document_pptx function. This needs now an input file path, as well as optionally specifying how you would like your files.

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.SplitDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/file' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.
return_document_contents = true # bool | Set to true to return the contents of each presentation directly, set to false to only return URLs to each resulting presentation.  Default is true. (optional)
try:
# Split a single PowerPoint Presentation PPTX into Separate Slides
api_response = api_instance.split_document_pptx(input_file, return_document_contents=return_document_contents)
pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling SplitDocumentApi->split_document_pptx: %s\n" % e)

Simple! That’s right, it just works. So now that you don’t have to worry about splitting PPTX files, what are you going to do with all this new-found free time? You might consider looking through our documentation for the rest of this same library, as it contains all sorts of other useful methods like this one.