looking for library to read ppt files

[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 06:30 -0700, Aljosa Mohorovic wrote:
> > > Not really a Python question but Google turned up:
> it is a python question. i'm not looking for a program, i'm looking
> for a library.
> my goal is to convert ppt to jpegs but later i wish to convert to swf
> and maybe implement animations
> 
> > I suppose you could also use the win32 module and the COM object to
> > grab the info from the slide and then use the PIL module to create a
> > jpeg. Sounds like a lot of head banging to me, but it might be an
> > interesting project.
> i can't use win32 because it should work on linux since it will be
> used as server-side application.

How about running a headless OpenOffice instance and remote-controlling
it with pyuno:

http://udk.openoffice.org/python/python-bridge.html

-Carsten