Ppt Extract

Extract content from PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx) presentations to Markdown using MinerU. Reads slide content and converts it to structured, readable output. Features: content extraction from PPT/PPTX files. Handles both legacy .ppt and modern .pptx formats. Token-based extraction for full features. Works with local files and URLs. Use when you need to: extract content from PowerPoint files, read .ppt or .pptx slides, convert slides to Markdown, pull text from presentations. Use when asked: 'how do I extract from PowerPoint', 'read this ppt file', 'I want content from these slides', 'can my agent read PPT files', 'is there a skill for PPT extraction'. Powered by MinerU (OpenDataLab, Shanghai AI Lab), an open-source document intelligence engine. Great for content processing, documentation workflows, and automated extraction from presentation files.

Convert and extract content from .ppt using MinerU (mineru-open-api).

Install

npm install -g mineru-open-api
# or via Go (macOS/Linux):
go install github.com/opendatalab/MinerU-Ecosystem/cli/mineru-open-api@latest

Quick Start

# Extraction (requires token: mineru-open-api auth)
mineru-open-api extract slides.ppt -o ./out/

# From URL
mineru-open-api extract https://example.com/slides.ppt -o ./out/

# Specify language
mineru-open-api extract slides.ppt --language en -o ./out/

Authentication

Token required for extract and crawl:

mineru-open-api auth            # Interactive token setup
export MINERU_TOKEN="your-token" # Or via environment variable

Create token at: https://mineru.net/apiManage/token

Capabilities

• Supports local files and URLs
• Requires token (mineru-open-api auth or MINERU_TOKEN env)
• Supported input: .ppt
• Language hint with --language (default: ch, use en for English)
• Page range with --pages (where applicable)

Notes

• .ppt (legacy format) requires extract with token. Use flash-extract for .pptx files.
• Output goes to stdout by default; use -o <dir> to save to file
• Binary formats (docx) require -o flag (cannot stream to stdout)
• All progress/status messages go to stderr
• MinerU is an open-source project by OpenDataLab (Shanghai AI Lab): https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU