Convert PDF to PowerPoint
Get a PPTX with one slide per PDF page, looking like the original, with editable text boxes.
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What it does
PDF to PowerPoint, explained
PDF to PowerPoint makes one slide per PDF page. Each slide uses a picture of the page so it looks like the original, and adds editable text boxes on top where the converter finds text. You can present it as is, change wording, or add your own slides around it.
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Be clear about what is editable. Text boxes are; charts, diagrams, tables and shapes are part of the page picture, so you can move or crop them but not edit their data. That is the right trade-off for presenting a PDF report in a meeting or reusing a few slides from a deck that was only sent as PDF. It is not a way to recover the original PowerPoint file.
Slides take the shape of the PDF page: a deck exported to PDF at 16:9 comes back as 16:9 slides, while a portrait report becomes tall slides. Scanned PDFs need OCR for any text boxes to appear.
The output is a PPTX file, which every current version of PowerPoint, Keynote and Google Slides opens. Conversion runs on our processing servers; without an account you can run 2 conversions, and the Free plan includes 10 a month.
How to do it
Convert PDF to PowerPoint in 4 steps
1Your PDF
2Convert
3The new format
- 1
Upload the PDF
Up to 25 MB without an account, 50 MB on the Free plan.
- 2
Choose pages and OCR
Convert all pages or a range. Turn on OCR for scanned PDFs.
- 3
Convert
Each page becomes a slide; progress shows on the page.
- 4
Download the PPTX
Open it in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.
Example
Before and after
A 10-page quarterly results PDF (16:9 pages) exported from a slide app, with bar charts and bullet lists.
A 10-slide PPTX that looks like the PDF. Titles and bullet text are editable text boxes; the bar charts are part of each slide's page picture.
Settings & formats
What you can control
- Pages
- All pages or a range; each selected page becomes one slide.
- Editable text boxes
- Add real text boxes over each slide's page image so wording can be edited; turn off to keep each slide an exact picture of the page.
- OCR
- Off (default), Auto (only scanned pages) or On (all pages), with up to four languages, so scanned pages get editable text boxes too.
Input
Output
Good to know before you start
- Charts, tables, diagrams and shapes are not rebuilt as PowerPoint objects; they stay in the page picture.
- Animations, transitions and speaker notes cannot be recovered, because a PDF does not contain them.
- Editable text boxes use the closest available font, so wording may wrap differently from the picture underneath.
- This is a beta conversion; results on dense or unusual layouts vary.
If something goes wrong
If something goes wrong
- The original wording shows behind an edited text box
- The page picture still contains the original text. Give the text box a solid fill that matches the slide background, or crop that area of the picture.
- No text boxes appeared
- The PDF is probably scanned. Convert again with OCR on.
PDF to PowerPoint: questions people ask
PPT or PPTX: which do I get?
A PPTX file. It is the current PowerPoint format and opens in PowerPoint 2007 and later, Keynote and Google Slides. Save as PPT from PowerPoint if a system needs the older format.
Can I edit charts after converting?
No. Charts are part of the page picture. Rebuild them in PowerPoint if you need to change the data.
Will speaker notes come back?
No. Speaker notes are not stored in a PDF, so there is nothing to recover.
Why are my slides a strange shape?
Slides match the PDF page shape. A portrait A4 or Letter page becomes a tall slide; resize the slides in PowerPoint if you need 16:9.
Do I need an account?
You can run 2 conversions without an account. The Free plan includes 10 conversions a month.