PowerPoint Text Extractor - Pull Text from PPTX Slides

Getting the words out of a PowerPoint deck is surprisingly awkward. Opening every slide and copying each text box by hand is slow, and pasting slides into a document drags formatting, layout artifacts, and empty placeholders along with the words you actually want. This extractor does the tedious part for you: pick a .pptx file and it returns the plain text of every slide as a clean, numbered list you can read, copy in one click, or save as a .txt file. Everything happens locally in your browser. A .pptx presentation is, under the hood, a ZIP archive full of XML files. The tool unzips that archive on your device, walks the slide XML files in their natural order, and pulls out every text run, grouping runs by paragraph so a sentence that PowerPoint split into several formatting runs comes back as one readable line. If the deck contains speaker notes, those are extracted too and shown in a separate block beneath the slide they belong to. Because the parsing runs entirely on your machine, the presentation is never uploaded, no copy is stored anywhere, and confidential decks stay confidential. Typical uses are everywhere once you start looking. Writers repurpose deck content into blog posts, documentation, or scripts. Localizers need the raw strings before quoting a translation. Students condense lecture slides into study notes. Teams feed slide text into search indexes, meeting summaries, or an LLM prompt without hauling the binary file around. Accessibility reviewers check what a screen reader will actually find on each slide. The live counters for slide count and total word count also give speakers a quick sanity check on deck length before a rehearsal. There are honest limitations. Only the modern .pptx format (PowerPoint 2007 and later) is supported — the legacy binary .ppt container is a different format entirely. Text that lives inside images, screenshots, or scanned pages is not recoverable without OCR, and the reading order of overlapping text boxes follows the file's internal order, which can occasionally differ from the visual arrangement on a busy slide. Embedded charts and SmartArt store their labels in separate parts, so a few of those strings may not appear. For everyday decks of titles, bullet lists, and notes, though, the extraction is fast, faithful, and completely private.