@markitdownjs/pptx

PowerPoint (PPTX) to AST converter for MarkItDownJS. Extracts slide content, speaker notes, titles, and slide order from .pptx files.

Install

npm install @markitdownjs/pptx

Usage

import { MarkItDown } from "@markitdownjs/core";
import { PptxConverter } from "@markitdownjs/pptx";

const parser = new MarkItDown();
parser.registerConverter(new PptxConverter());

const result = await parser.convert({
  source: pptxBuffer,
  mimeType: "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation",
});
console.log(result.markdown);

Key Exports

| Export | Description | |---|---| | PptxConverter | Converter plugin — register with MarkItDown |

What Gets Extracted

• Slide titles (rendered as headings)
• Body text and bullet points per slide
• Speaker notes (appended as blockquotes or omitted via options)
• Slide order preserved in AST metadata

Options

parser.registerConverter(new PptxConverter({
  includeSpeakerNotes: true,
  slideNumbering: true,
}));

Accepted MIME Types

• application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation

Part of the MarkItDownJS monorepo.