Overview

PowerML pro is a Java API which parses PowerPoint presentations into in-memory object graphs and provides a programming interface to the parsed content. For example, you can easily get a list of all shapes on a slide, access a shape's fill style, get the text assigned to a shape, get presentation summary elements like author, title etc.

Like PowerML core, the pro edition also supports XML generation from parsed content. The two editions also share the same set of supported PowerPoint features. However, only PowerML pro offers you efficient, out-of-the-box programmatic access to your presentation's elements.

Scenarios

The possibilities gained by storing parsed presentation elements into in-memory object graphs are countless. For example, you can

process contained text
implement full-text indexing
retrieve and export contained pictures
transform presentations to other formats, e.g. to SVG, PDF or Macromedia Flash (also check out JSwiff)

PowerML pro needs neither PowerPoint nor Windows. It runs within a Java 2 (or newer) runtime environment (standard edition).