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---
title: "PPTXToDocument"
id: pptxtodocument
slug: "/pptxtodocument"
description: "Convert PPTX files to documents."
---
# PPTXToDocument
Convert PPTX files to documents.
<div className="key-value-table">
| | |
| --- | --- |
| **Most common position in a pipeline** | Before [PreProcessors](../preprocessors.mdx) or right at the beginning of an indexing pipeline |
| **Mandatory run variables** | `sources`: PPTX file paths or [`ByteStream`](../../concepts/data-classes.mdx#bytestream) objects |
| **Output variables** | `documents`: A list of documents |
| **API reference** | [Converters](/reference/converters-api) |
| **GitHub link** | https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/blob/main/haystack/components/converters/pptx.py |
</div>
## Overview
The `PPTXToDocument` component converts PPTX files into documents. It takes a list of file paths or [`ByteStream`](../../concepts/data-classes.mdx#bytestream) objects as input and outputs the converted result as a list of documents. Optionally, you can attach metadata to the documents through the `meta` input parameter.
## Usage
First, install the`python-pptx` package to start using this converter:
```shell
pip install python-pptx
```
### On its own
```python
from haystack.components.converters import PPTXToDocument
converter = PPTXToDocument()
results = converter.run(sources=["sample.pptx"], meta={"date_added": datetime.now().isoformat()})
documents = results["documents"]
print(documents[0].content)
## 'This is the text from the PPTX file.'
```
### In a pipeline
```python
from haystack import Pipeline
from haystack.document_stores.in_memory import InMemoryDocumentStore
from haystack.components.converters import PPTXToDocument
from haystack.components.preprocessors import DocumentCleaner
from haystack.components.preprocessors import DocumentSplitter
from haystack.components.writers import DocumentWriter
document_store = InMemoryDocumentStore()
pipeline = Pipeline()
pipeline.add_component("converter", PPTXToDocument())
pipeline.add_component("cleaner", DocumentCleaner())
pipeline.add_component("splitter", DocumentSplitter(split_by="sentence", split_length=5))
pipeline.add_component("writer", DocumentWriter(document_store=document_store))
pipeline.connect("converter", "cleaner")
pipeline.connect("cleaner", "splitter")
pipeline.connect("splitter", "writer")
pipeline.run({"converter": {"sources": file_names}})
```