How to convert PPt to text under linux platform?
 

I have trouble this problem for days.
I need a tool to extact text from ppt ,especially UTF-8 support.
if someone has some ideas,please contact me

Does ppt refer to Microsoft PowerPoint files? If so, have you tried opening it with OpenOffice Impress? That's always handled the conversion very well for me.

Also, this is a forum, the answers get posted here and emailed to you; this way everyone can benefit. If I were you, I'd also remove your email address from your question otherwise you're likely to get a lot more spam emails.

Thank you for your mind.
just as you said,PPT= PowerPoint files,I need a tools to convert it to text via command line
Does Open Office support the way of command line?

I don't think so, no.

I've had a look on Google for some tools, but I can't find anything that will extract the text from a PowerPoint file.

Thank you very much, Does anyone have some idwa?

I think it would help to know why you need to do this--i.e. what is the overall problem you are trying to solve? If you study the format of a .ppt file, I'm sure you could write a program to extract the text, but something like OpenOffice already does that.

Have you tried reading a .ppt file using more or cat|hexdump?

Depending on what you intend to do with the text, the "strings" command might suit you.

Yves.

Cool command!!--learn something new every day. Ran it on a .ppt file and indeed saw some meaningful text

(plus a whole lot of useless stuff......)

This will be good if one knows what they are looking for.

I know it's a dead topic, but I think this worths mentioning. OpenOffice.org does have a command line interface. There also is a python script called unoconv that makes conversion easy, and it's available as a package for several distros, including Ubuntu and Arch (in AUR).