exide
Exide is a Python API for information extraction from presentation documents.
The API is currently in developement and bugs are likely to occur.
Install exide
Download the repository, cd to the root of the exide package directory and then type the following:
sudo su
pip install .
python
import nltk
nltk.download("all")then press enter. Exide is now installed on your system.
Implemented features :
- Slide title extraction
- Slide body text extraction
- Named-entities recognition (unaccurate)
- Emphasized text recognition
- URLs recognition
- Structure detection and outline generation
- Recognition of the following silde types :
- Introduction
- Conclusion
- Definition
- Example
- Table of contents
- References
- Section header
Note : slide types can be added by editing the datatypes/types file.
Supported file types
- Office Open XML Presentations (PPTX)
- OpenDocument Presentations (ODP)
- LaTeX beamer Presentations
Simple example
The following code show you how to print the outline string of the file my_presentation.pptx.
from exide.parse import parse
exide_presentation = parse("my_folder/my_presentation.pptx")
print(exide_presentation.outline)More examples here.
Documentation
Exide documentation is available here.