looking for library to read ppt files

[Aljosa Mohorovic]

> > 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.