kevinmcguinness/pdf2pptx

Convert a PDF slideshow to Powerpoint PPTX

pdf2pptx

Utility to convert a PDF slideshow to Powerpoint PPTX.

Renders each page as a PNG image and creates the resulting Powerpoint slideshow from these images. Useful when you want to use Powerpoint to present a set of PDF slides (e.g. slides from Beamer). You can then use the presentation capabilities of Powerpoint (notes, ink on slides, etc.) with slides created in LaTeX.

I use this to present PDF slides on a Surface Pro so that I can annotate them with a stylus as I present.

Uses PyMuPDF and python-pptx to do the hard work.

Installation

pip install pdf2pptx

Usage

The following will create a slides.pptx file from a slides.pdf file.

pdf2pptx slides.pdf

Run pdf2pptx --help for more info on the command line interface.

pdf2pptx's Issues

add integration support, found bugs?

It would be of great help if you would add integration support into other projects, as in adding the ability to import functions from you module.
I have tried this workaround:
in __init__.py adding from .cli import main
and in my code from pdf2pptx import main as create_pptx
and using it like this create_pptx(["INPUT","-o OUTPUT"])
which allowed me to use debug features on your code. only to find out that certian attributes and methods names' are defined slightly diffrently (maybe becuase of an update) e.g:
pageCount ->page_count
loadPage ->load_page
getPixmap -> get_pixmap

but I got stuck on image_data = pixmap.getPNGData() at line 63
as I didnt seem to find that function or something similar

would appreciate a fix, thanks

Is there any good method to remove text on each slide to get a c;lean background for filling ocr result?

Is there any good method to remove text on each slide to get a c;lean background for filling ocr result?