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<header>
<title>POI-HSLF - Java API To Access Microsoft Powerpoint Format Files</title>
<subtitle>Overview</subtitle>
<authors>
<person name="Avik Sengupta" email="avik at apache dot org"/>
<person name="Nick Burch" email="nick at apache dot org"/>
</authors>
</header>
<body>
<section>
<title>Overview</title>
<p>HSLF is the POI Project's pure Java implementation of the Powerpoint file format.</p>
<p>HSLF provides a way to read powerpoint presentations, and extract text from it.
It also provides some (currently limited) edit capabilities.
</p>
<note>
This code currently lives the
<link href="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/poi/trunk/src/scratchpad/">scratchpad area</link>
of the POI SVN repository.
Ensure that you have the scratchpad jar or the scratchpad
build area in your
classpath before experimenting with this code.
</note>
<p>The <link href="./quick-guide.html">quick guide</link> documentation provides
information on using this API. Comments and fixes gratefully accepted on the POI
dev mailing lists.</p>
</section>
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