Andrew,

Try "ppthtml", that comes with "xlhtml".

Works most of the time, but sometimes returns unexpectedly blank files - not sure if it can handle all of the very latest ppt formats.  But, overall, considerably better than "strings".

Alex.

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>>> Andrew Smith <asmith@compbio.berkeley.edu> 23/01/03 23:03:28 >>>

Finally, this has probably been asked, but is there a Linux filter to use 
for filtering and indexing MS Powerpoint files (i.e. something like 
pdftotext for pdf)? I haven't been able to find a good free one, and was 
thinking of just using the "strings" command to extract printable strings 
from a file, but just want to know if there is anything better.

thanks,

Andrew Smith