J
Joseph M. Newcomer
I got tired of not having a way to index my PowerPoint presentations (which typically run
over 1,300 slides, encompassing what would be an entire semester of lecture hours, or a
week of full-time intense coursework). So I gave up and wrote an indexing program. It
basically tries to index every single word in the presentation, then provides ways to kick
out useless words, canonicalize case, deal with plural forms, etc. It allows the indexing
of multiword phrases, and permuted index terms (such as "virtual memory" also indexing as
"memory, virtual"). All these rules can be added by the user.
The output is a 2-frame, 3-file HTML index that can be searched.
The program is written in MFC and built under VS.NET 2003, but there is a .msi download
for non-programmers. Full source is included in the source download.
The documentation can be found at
http://www.flounder.com/powerpoint_indexer.htm
This is still a work-in-progress, but I've indexed two major and one minor presentation
using it (about 3200 slides total) and I'm reasonably comfortable with it. Comments, bug
reports, and suggestions may be sent to me via email (I don't visit this newsgroup very
often)
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm
over 1,300 slides, encompassing what would be an entire semester of lecture hours, or a
week of full-time intense coursework). So I gave up and wrote an indexing program. It
basically tries to index every single word in the presentation, then provides ways to kick
out useless words, canonicalize case, deal with plural forms, etc. It allows the indexing
of multiword phrases, and permuted index terms (such as "virtual memory" also indexing as
"memory, virtual"). All these rules can be added by the user.
The output is a 2-frame, 3-file HTML index that can be searched.
The program is written in MFC and built under VS.NET 2003, but there is a .msi download
for non-programmers. Full source is included in the source download.
The documentation can be found at
http://www.flounder.com/powerpoint_indexer.htm
This is still a work-in-progress, but I've indexed two major and one minor presentation
using it (about 3200 slides total) and I'm reasonably comfortable with it. Comments, bug
reports, and suggestions may be sent to me via email (I don't visit this newsgroup very
often)
joe
Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP]
email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://www.flounder.com
MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm