I need to extract images from a PPT file. For those of you that don't know what a PPT file is it is a Microsoft Power Point File. I can't do several of the methods used as this is going to be web based. I can't have the users save the Power Point project as an HTML project either. There basically going to come to this site i will develop and then upload there PPT file and it will extract the images from the PPT file and then put it on the server temporarily and make and XML. The XML file and the images will be put into a zip folder that they can download. That is basically what is going to happen. My problem is i can't get the images from the PPT file. I was planning on doing this with PHP but i don't know if it is even possible. Also the servers this will take place on are UNIX based. If you have any hints or any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.

Grabbing the images from the PPT file is going to be a tough job. Unless someone else knows of an existing tool to do it you're going to need to read and understand the PowerPoint File Format Specification.

Grabbing the images from the PPT file is going to be a tough job. Unless someone else knows of an existing tool to do it you're going to need to read and understand the PowerPoint File Format Specification.

 

Oh i never said it was going to be easy. Thanks for the useful link.