The PowerPoint to Word conversion operation is hardly a straightforward process—neither the Microsoft PowerPoint nor Microsoft Word app provides specific functions that allow users to convert PowerPoint to Word. If you are looking to convert your PPT document to a Word DOC, then you most likely have solid reasons for wanting to do so. For one, Word provides formatting functions that may be better suited to your needs. For another, you get a lot more printing options in Word.
PPT to Word Conversion in Python
If you want to perform the task programmatically, you will be able to do it with a few lines of Python code. By the time you finish reading this article, you will have learned how to convert PowerPoint to Word in Python.
Get Two APIs to Convert PPT to Word in Python
Earlier, we established that the PowerPoint to Word operation is not a straightforward process. To get to the point where you can execute the PowerPoint to Word conversion by running a code, you need an API that deals with PowerPoint presentations and another API capable of manipulating Word documents.
- Aspose.Slides for Python via .NET. This powerful API is used to create, edit, convert, and manipulate PowerPoint presentations (without Microsoft PowerPoint or Office). To install Aspose.Slides for Python, see Installation.
- Aspose.Words for Python via .NET. This feature-rich document processing API to used to create, modify, convert, render, and print files in Microsoft Word formats. To install Aspose.Words for Python, see Installation.
The recommended APIs allow you to extract the relevant items (ranging from texts to images) on slides in a PowerPoint and also transfer the extracted contents to waiting pages in a Word document.
Info: You may want to see the free PowerPoint to Word converter from Aspose because the tasks it performs may be considered a live demonstration of the PowerPoint to Word process described in this article.
Convert PowerPoint to Word in Python
Add these namespaces to your program.py file:
import aspose.slides as slides import aspose.words as wordsRun this Python code to convert PPT to Word:
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Conclusion
We believe you now know how to convert a PowerPoint presentation to a Word document using Python code.
While the Python code we provided targeted the PPT and DOC, you can easily modify it and use it for PPT to DOCX, PPTX to DOCX, PPTX to DOC, and other conversions involving known PowerPoint and Word document formats.
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