PowerPoint

Overview

Create, read, and edit PowerPoint (.pptx) files programmatically using the python-pptx library. Handles slide creation, text formatting, images, tables, charts, shapes, slide layouts, and speaker notes. Works without PowerPoint installed — reads and writes the Open XML format directly.

Instructions

Setup

pip install python-pptx

Alternative — AI-generated PPTX: For fully automated slide generation from text prompts, Presenton (github.com/presenton/presenton) is an open-source tool that produces PPTX using OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or Ollama. Runs locally via Docker. Use python-pptx (below) when you need precise control over content, formatting, and programmatic data-driven generation.

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