Extract Media PowerPoint

A lightweight Python library to extract images and videos from PowerPoint (.pptx) presentations, with optional filtering by media type, file extension, and automatic organization by slide number.

Features

• Extract all embedded media (images and videos) from a .pptx file
• Extract filtered media by type (image or video) and custom extensions
• Output organized in subdirectories by slide number
• Supports custom output directories
• Built on top of python-pptx

Requirements

• Python >= 3.10
• lxml >= 6.0.2
• Pillow >= 12.1.1
• python-pptx >= 1.0.2

Installation

pip install pptmedia

Quick Start

Extract all media (no filtering)

from extract import PowerPointMediaExtractor

extractor = PowerPointMediaExtractor(
    filepath="presentation.pptx",
    output_dir="output"
)
count = extractor.extract_all_media()
print(f"Extracted {count} media files")

Files are saved under output/ppt/media/.

Extract images filtered by extension

from extract import PowerPointMediaExtractor

extractor = PowerPointMediaExtractor(
    filepath="presentation.pptx",
    media_type="image",
    output_dir="output",
    extensions=["png", "jpg"]
)
count = extractor.extract_filtered_media()

Files are saved under output/<slide_number>/ppt/media/.

Extract videos

from extract import PowerPointMediaExtractor

extractor = PowerPointMediaExtractor(
    filepath="presentation.pptx",
    media_type="video",
    output_dir="output",
    extensions=["mp4", "avi"]
)
count = extractor.extract_filtered_media()

API Reference

PowerPointMediaExtractor

PowerPointMediaExtractor(
    filepath: str | Path,
    media_type: str = "image",      # "image" or "video"
    output_dir: str | Path = "temp",
    extensions: list[str] | None = None,
)

Default extensions:

Methods

MediaInfo

Dataclass representing a media item found in the presentation.

@dataclass
class MediaInfo:
    shape_id: int
    filename: str
    slide_number: int

Logging

The library uses Python's standard logging module under the logger name extract.service. To see output:

import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

License

MIT — see LICENSE.txt.