This script converts a PDF file containing slides for a presentation into the OpenDocument Presentation format (.odp).

pdf2ooimpress [--size=NNNxMMM] inputfile.pdf outputfile.odp

(default size is 1024x768 pixels)

The pdf2ooimpress script uses the modules Getopt::Long, File::Temp, OpenOffice::OODoc, Image::Magick, and PDF::API2. The first two are standard in Perl and the later three can be installed like this, in Debian-based distributions:

apt install libimage-magick-perl
apt install libopenoffice-oodoc-perl
apt install libpdf-api2-perl

make install

The pdf2ooimpress script is installed by default into /usr/local/bin. Another destination directory can be specified like this:

make BINDIR=/path/to/installation/directory install

Based on a script written by K.-H. Herrmann June 2005 (https://linuxgazette.net/116/misc/herrmann/img2ooImpress.pl.txt)

Thanks to Ben Okopnik for the suggestions to improve this script.

Copyright (C) 2018, 2019 Rafael Laboissiere ([email protected])

Released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. No warranties.