PowerPoint Slide Extractor

Source code and GUI for extracting slides from PPT file

Create PowerPoint file(s) from slides extracted from PPT files identified in a folder.
Slides can be extracted either from a script file or from a GUI. A MATLAB App (GUI), test PPT files and example output can be found in the release section. Tunning the test file is a good way to get started (testPptSlideExtractorClass.m)

Start GUI

>SlideExtractorFig
Input

pptFolderPath : Folder path that contains PPT/PPTX files
pptFileNamePrefix : Destination PPT file name prefix
save_folder_name : Destination Path to save destination PPT
slidesToExtract : Array of slides to remove from each PPT
numSlidesPerPPT : Number of slides to save in each destination PPT. Each created PPT is numbered sequentially starting with 1.

Function Prototypes

obj = SlideExtractorClass(pptFolderPath, pptFileNamePrefix, save_folder_name)
obj = obj.extractSlides
obj = obj.extractSlides(slidesToExtract, numSlidesPerPPT)

Requirements

Tested with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

Acknowledgements

The following open source utilities are called by SlideExtractorClass

saveppt2
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/19322-saveppt2

dirr
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8682-dirr--find-files-recursively-filtering-name--date-or-bytes-