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Control Your PowerPoint Presentations with Hand Gestures Using Python

Document Have you ever wished you could control your PowerPoint presentations with just a wave of your hand? Imagine presenting to an audience and effortlessly switching slides with natural hand gestures, no clicker required. Thanks to Python, OpenCV, and MediaPipe, this futuristic concept can be a reality! In this blog, we'll explore a Python script that enables you to navigate your PowerPoint presentation using hand gestures. This script detects your hand movements via your webcam and translates them into slide navigation commands. Prerequisites This project combines MediaPipe for hand detection and win32com.client to interact with Microsoft PowerPoint. Here’s a breakdown of what it does: Hand Detection : Detects left and right hands using your webcam feed. Slide Control : A left-hand gesture ...