How to Validate a PowerPoint Presentation (PPTX) in Python

It’s important to make sure invalid PowerPoint documents are detected quickly in any file processing workflow. Using the ready-to-run Python code examples provided below, you can quickly & easily implement a free PPTX validation service into your Python application with zero hassle. This API will return detailed information about any invalid PPTX files it detects, including an error & warning count and a description, path & URI to the errors.

To install the SDK, run the command below:

pip install cloudmersive-convert-api-client

Next, include the imports and call the function:

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'



# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ValidateDocumentApi(cloudmersive_convert_api_client.ApiClient(configuration))
input_file = '/path/to/inputfile' # file | Input file to perform the operation on.

try:
    # Validate a PowerPoint presentation (PPTX)
    api_response = api_instance.validate_document_pptx_validation(input_file)
    pprint(api_response)
except ApiException as e:
    print("Exception when calling ValidateDocumentApi->validate_document_pptx_validation: %s\n" % e)

Almost done! To complete your API call for free, you just need to include a free-tier Cloudmersive API key in the configuration.api_key field. You can get one by registering a free account on our website.