Find and Highlight Text in PowerPoint documents using Java

This article will introduce how to find and highlight specified text in a PowerPoint slide using Java codes. It’s worth mentioning that I used a free third-party library called Free Spire.Presentation for Java. Before running codes, we need to add a Jar file called Spire.Presentantion.jar in the library to Intellij IDEA. You can download the package from the link, find the Jar file in the “lib” folder and add it to IDEA. Or directly refer to it by using the following Maven configurations.

<repositories>
<repository>
<id>com.e-iceblue</id>
<name>e-iceblue</name>
<url>http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>e-iceblue</groupId>
<artifactId>spire.presentation.free</artifactId>
<version>3.9.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Using the code
import com.spire.presentation.FileFormat;
import com.spire.presentation.IAutoShape;
import com.spire.presentation.Presentation;
import com.spire.presentation.TextHighLightingOptions;
import java.awt.*;

public class SearchAndHighlightText {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        //Create a Presentation instance
        Presentation presentation = new Presentation();
        //Load a PowerPoint document
        presentation.loadFromFile("C:\\Users\\Test1\\Desktop\\Sample.pptx");

        //Get the first shape on the first slide
        IAutoShape shape = (IAutoShape) presentation.getSlides().get(0).getShapes().get(0);

        //Set highlight options
        TextHighLightingOptions options = new TextHighLightingOptions();
        options.setWholeWordsOnly(true);
        options.setCaseSensitive(false);

        //Highlight text
        shape.getTextFrame().highLightText("nose", Color.yellow, options);

        //Save the resulting document
        presentation.saveToFile("output/HighlightSpecifiedText.pptx", FileFormat.PPTX_2013);
    }
}
Output