This page shows some of the power of pptutils. This ColdFusion component makes it easy to extract text, slides with formatting or metadata from a PowerPoint (<2007) presentation.

Here is the original PPT used in these demos.

Here is that same PPT, converted on the fly to HTML.

Here is that HTML converted to a Connect presentation using the <cfpresentation> tag in ColdFusion 8.

Here is a dump of that PPT file's metadata.

And finally, here is a simple text extraction from the PPT (could be used for indexing content).

If you have issues with the component please file them at the RIAForge bug tracker.

If you should find this component especially useful please consider visiting my wishlist.