Are you a user of PowerPoint 2010 or newer? If so, you have probably noticed that the file extension of your PowerPoint presentations is PPTX, correct? Imagine that you have a slide deck, but you want to extract the photos or some other type of content that’s in it?
How do you do that? Is it possible at all?
Turns out, it is and here are the steps that you can take to extract any content from any PowerPoint presentation:
1. Find the PowerPoint presentation that you are interested in.
2. Create a copy of it. Just copy -> paste the file in the same or different folder (you need that additional copy just to be on the safe side!)
3. Now take a look at the name of the file. Do you see the “.ppxt” extension? If not, go through those steps (on a Mac you see the extensions by default)
4. Once you have the copy of the file and see the file extension, go ahead and rename this file. How? Just remove the .pptx and put .zip
(yes, make the PowerPoint file an archive!)
5. Once you do that, right-click on the file and extract it to a folder on your machine.
6. Open that folder and go to the “ppt” folder. What you are looking for is there. If it’s photos – they are in the “media” folder. If these are some embedded objects and files, they are in the “embeddings” folder.
There you have it! Now you know how to extract the content of a PowerPoint presentation!
It did not work
Can you tell us what are you seeing as error / or what’s happening once you try it? 🙂
When I try this and try to open the .zip file I get an error message that says “Unable to expand document. It is in an unsupported format”. Any help would be appreciated.
Hey, Joel! Is that a PC or a Mac? 🙂 Shoot me a mail at boris@356labs.com with what you are seeing and I will help 😉
Yup—This no longer works
It works. Do not worry. Send me what you are doing at boris@356labs.com and will help out 😉
It helped me like a lots…Thank you so much!!! God bless you
Happy to hear! 🙂
great tip thanks. I tried it a few different zip programmes but it only worked with “The Unarchiver” for me. You might want to try different programmes if it doesnt work at first.
That’s if you are on a Mac, yeap 🙂
On windows, I don’t see any of the embedded excel files I have. Just .bin files.
That means that you do not have any embedded excel files. They were probably just linked. 😉
No, it doesn’t. I also have a jar file inside PPTX, and I can see it as ppt\embeddings\oleObject1.bin , and the only way to get it out is to do something like installing oledump and use it. Bleh. Just spent half an hour making it work in my cygwin. But yes, I succeeded to get the jar file from the oleObject finally.
Hm… you shouldn’t be seeing any jar files to be honest. I would be super curious if you can show me what you are doing on a short screencapture. Please send it over at contact@356labs.com if you have the time 😉
Didn’t work on Mac, I tried The Unarchiver and Archive Utility and it does not create a folder, just unzips the zip and leaves me with the same presentation I started with.
Hi Alex,
Did you rename your presentation from .pptx to .zip?