Feature Request: Extract Text from PowerPoint Files

[Isaiah512]

I would like to request the addition of a feature that allows the application to extract text from PowerPoint files (.ppt and .pptx), in addition to the existing PDF functionality.

[FurqanHun]

Hi, I can help with this! I've already cloned the repo and made some improvements to accept file paths from cli arguments or through user prompts (instead of the hard coded "file_path").

For .ppt support, we have two possible approaches:

1. Try reading the .ppt file directly using python-pptx, and if it fails then prompt the user to convert it to .pptx
2. Add automatic file conversion functionality (though this would require os specific handling like ms office on windows, libre office on linux and blah blah)

I plan to implement the first approach using python-pptx since it's simpler and more portable across different operating systems. Would you like me to proceed with it?

[FurqanHun]

Got it to work with ppt:

However there's one little problem with it, i used unoconv (on linux) which is depreciated and i don't wanna install unoserver (its successor)... so im trying to implement an auto converter (which tries using:

• unoserver at first
• then unoconv
• and directly libreoffice on linux/mac
• if all fails then shows the error asking to install them or manually convert the ppt)

as for windows it would require powerpoint for conversion...

[Isaiah512]

Thank you! Please go ahead with this approach

[FurqanHun]

Alright, I'll clean up the code and send the pr in few hrs.