PDF to PowerPoint
Keep the layout in PowerPoint
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One page becomes one slide. Text, lines, coloured shapes and images are placed at their original positions in the PDF. Fonts embedded in the PDF and text colour are not carried over. Files are processed in your browser.
How to use
Converts a PDF into a PowerPoint file (.pptx). Each page becomes a slide, with text, lines, coloured shapes and images placed where they sat in the PDF. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
When to use it
- Reworking a deck you only received as a PDF.
- Lifting one page of a proposal into another presentation.
- Moving printed material onto screen for a talk.
How to use it
- Choose a PDF. Up to 200 pages and 50MB.
- Pages are read in order; the preview shows what is coming across.
- Press Save as PPT to download the .pptx.
Good to know
- Slide size follows the proportions of the original page. For a 16:9 talk, change the slide size in PowerPoint afterwards.
- Scanned PDFs cannot be converted — no text inside, and no OCR here.
- Fonts and text colours are not carried over. Sizes, bold, and the colours of lines and shapes are.
- Animations and transitions do not exist in a PDF, so they cannot come back.
- Password-protected PDFs cannot be opened.
Frequently asked questions
It started life as a PPT — do I get it back intact?
Not identically. Exporting to PDF discards the structure of text boxes, shapes and layouts, leaving only positions and appearances. This tool rebuilds slides from what remains. If the original deck exists, it is always the better source.
The text is split into many small boxes.
A PDF stores text line by line, so a box can appear per line. Merge them in PowerPoint by copying the lines into a single text box.
My slides are portrait.
They follow the original page, so an A4 portrait PDF gives portrait slides. Switch to 16:9 under slide size in the Design tab, keeping in mind that the content will be repositioned.
Some images are missing.
Embedded images are transferred, but a PDF can store pictures in unusual ways that do not come across. For those pages, render the page with PDF to PNG and use that image as the slide background.