# Open Document Presentation to text conversion require 'zip/zip' PlainText.extract { from :odp as 'application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation' aka "Open Document Format for presentation" with {|source| Zip::ZipFile.open(source){|zipfile| zipfile.read("content.xml").split(/]+>/,'') }.join("\n") } } which_should_for_example_extract 'Picolena can it find me maybe!', :from => 'ubuntu_theme.odp' }