office-extraction

name	office-extraction
description	Extracts text from DOCX and PPTX documents for content analysis.

Office Extraction Skill

This skill provides methods for extracting text from Microsoft Office documents (.docx, .pptx).

Methods

1. Using docx2txt or pandoc

If installed, these tools can convert Office docs to text.

# For DOCX
pandoc -t plain "document.docx" -o "output.txt"

2. Using Gemini CLI docx and pptx Skills

These specialized skills provide direct tools for document manipulation.

// For DOCX
await docx.read_file({ file_path: "paper.docx" });

// For PPTX
await pptx.read_presentation({ file_path: "slides.pptx" });

3. Manual Extraction (unzip)

DOCX and PPTX are ZIP archives. You can unzip them and read the XML.

unzip -p "document.docx" word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g'

Usage Pattern

Extract the main body text or titles to identify the document's subject matter.