Step 1. Launch Aspire and open the Workflows Page.

Launch Aspire (if it's not already running). See:

Step 2. Add or select a Workflow.

  • Add a new workflow or open an existing workflow.
  • For this step, please refer to the Workflow Introduction.

Step 3. Add a new Slide Extractor to the Workflow.

  • Select the event for which you want to add the Slide Extractor to, from the Event combo.
  • To add a Slide Extractor, drag the Slide Extractor from the Rules Section on the right side of the screen and drop it below the Workflow Event to the left side of the screen. This will automatically open the Slide Extractor window for the configuration of the component.





Step 3a. Specify a description.

  In the Slide Extractor window, specify the component information.

  1. General:
    1. Description: Enter the description of the component.

    2. Debug: Enable this option to debug any unusual behavior.

  2. Slides configuration:
    1. Slides splitting: Enable this option in case you want the content of every slide to be treated as a separate job.
    2. Add Extra Info from parent: enable this option in case you want to add some extra information from the job.
  3. Parser configuration: 
    1. Set Max Character to read: Maximum characters for the file loaded into memory to be parsed. (False will set to unlimited).
    2. Add Extra Info from parent: Specify name of the field from the parent job to add as extra info to every slide.
    3. Parse process timeout: Maximum time (in minutes) for the processing thread to wait for the parsing result.
    4. Wait For SubJobs sleep: Time to wait (in milliseconds) until all sub jobs are done.
  4. Extraction configuration:
    1. Include embedded presentations: Enable this option if you want to include the content from embedded ppt/pptxs.
    2. Extract presentation content: It extracts the content presentation and sends it to the content field in the job.
      1. Remove HTML tags: Ex. <div> \n  </li>
      2. Clean content: Remove the master layouts content, embedded annotations, notes, images, and references.




Once you've clicked on the Add button, it will take a moment for Aspire to download all the necessary components (the Jar files) from the Maven repository and load them into Aspire. Once that's done, the component will appear in the Workflow Tree.

For details on using the Workflow section, please refer to the Workflow introduction.