Merging Multiple PPTs using java

Last Updated : 11 Dec, 2020

To merge multiple PowerPoint Presentation files using Java. To achieve this use a Java Library called Apache POI. Apache POI is a project run by the Apache Software Foundation, and previously a sub-project of the Jakarta Project, provides pure Java libraries for reading and writing files in Microsoft Office formats, such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Use Apache guide to install the Apache POI libraries for Windows/Linux Systems.

Examples:

Input : file1.pptx, file2.pptx
Output: merged.pptx

Input : file1.pptx file2.pptx file3.pptx
Output: merged.pptx

Input Files:

Output File:

Approach:

Get the current working directory path and list all the presentation files
Create an empty Presentation Object using XMLSlideShow from apache POI package
Iterate through each Presentation File from the list and append slides to the empty Presentation Object
Save the new merged Presentation File

Below is the implementation of the above approach:

Java

// Merging Multiple PPTs using java
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.*;

// importing apache POI environment packages
import org.apache.poi.xslf.usermodel.XMLSlideShow;
import org.apache.poi.xslf.usermodel.XSLFSlide;

public class MergePPT {
    public static void main(String args[])
        throws IOException
    {

        // creating empty presentation
        XMLSlideShow ppt = new XMLSlideShow();

        String path = System.getProperty("user.dir");
        // getting path of current working directory

        File file = new File(path);
        // creating empty file using File object

        String[] fileList = file.list();
        // returns an array of all files from current
        // working directory

        ArrayList<String> presentationList
            = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (String str : fileList) {
            if (str.contains(".pptx"))
                presentationList.add(str);
        }
        // filtering all presentation file paths and
        // appending to presentationList

        if (presentationList.isEmpty() == false) {

            for (String arg : presentationList) {

                FileInputStream inputstream
                    = new FileInputStream(arg);
                // getting current presentation file path in
                // a FileInputStream
                XMLSlideShow src
                    = new XMLSlideShow(inputstream);
                // getting all the slides of the
                // presentation file in a XMLSlideShow
                // object
                for (XSLFSlide srcSlide : src.getSlides()) {

                    ppt.createSlide().importContent(
                        srcSlide);
                    // appending each presentation slide to
                    // empty presentation object ppt
                }
            }
            String mergedFile = path + "/merged.pptx";
            // creating new file path
            FileOutputStream out
                = new FileOutputStream(mergedFile);
            // creating the file object

            ppt.write(out);
            // saving the changes to the new file
            System.out.println(
                "All files merged successfully!");
            out.close();
        }
        else
            System.out.println(
                "No Presentation files found in current directory!");
    }
}