Pptx Extract

Extract content from PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations to Markdown using MinerU. Pulls slide content including text, structure, and formatting into readable output. Features: content extraction from PPTX files. Quick extraction (flash-extract) for .pptx without token. Full extraction with token for complex slides. Preserves slide structure and text formatting. Page/slide selection support. Use when you need to: extract content from PowerPoint slides, read .pptx file content, convert slides to Markdown, pull content from a presentation. Use when asked: 'how do I extract content from PowerPoint', 'read this pptx file', 'I want the content from these slides', 'can my agent read PowerPoint files', 'is there a skill for pptx extraction'. Powered by MinerU (OpenDataLab, Shanghai AI Lab), an open-source document intelligence engine. Great for content review, documentation workflows, and automated processing of presentation files.

Convert and extract content from .pptx 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

# Quick extraction (no token required)
mineru-open-api flash-extract slides.pptx

# Save to directory
mineru-open-api flash-extract slides.pptx -o ./out/

# From URL
mineru-open-api flash-extract https://example.com/slides.pptx

# Specify language
mineru-open-api flash-extract slides.pptx --language en

# Precision extraction with token (tables, formulas, more formats)
mineru-open-api extract slides.pptx -o ./out/

Authentication

No token needed for flash-extract. 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
• flash-extract: quick, no token needed (max 10 MB / 20 pages, Markdown only)
• extract: token required, full features (tables, formulas, multi-format)
• Supported input: .pptx
• Language hint with --language (default: ch, use en for English)
• Page range with --pages (flash-extract and extract)

Notes

• .pptx supports flash-extract for quick extraction without a token.
• 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