PDF to PowerPoint
Rebuild a deck you only have as a PDF. Every page becomes a slide: the words sit in text boxes that you can retype, and the artwork stays in place behind them.
Add one PDF file to convert to PowerPoint.
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Editable moves the text into text boxes and keeps the background and pictures. Exact look places each page as one picture.
Your PDF is handled inside this browser tab and is never uploaded.
How to use it
- Press ‘Choose a file’ and select the PDF of your deck, or drag it onto the page.
- Under ‘Conversion’, keep ‘Editable (text you can change)’ for text boxes over the page artwork, or choose ‘Exact look (pages as pictures)’ for one picture per slide.
- To make slides from only some pages, change ‘Pages to convert’ to ‘Page range’ and list them, for example 3-8.
- Press ‘Convert to PPT’ and wait while the progress line counts the pages.
- Press ‘Download’ and open the .pptx in PowerPoint or any program that reads PowerPoint files.
What it does
Text in real text boxes
In editable mode each run of text becomes its own text box, at the position and size it had on the page. Boxes are set not to wrap, so a longer line grows sideways; press Enter where you want a new line.
Artwork stays behind the text
The page is drawn once without its text, at 150 DPI, and becomes the slide background. Photos, lines, shapes, tints and logos stay where they were, with the text boxes laid on top.
Text colors matched
The ink color of each text box is sampled from the page, so white headings on a dark band usually stay white and a red warning stays red.
Slide size from your PDF
The slide takes the size and shape of the first page, so a 16:9 deck stays 16:9. Pages of another size are fitted inside it and centered.
Exact look
This option puts each page on its slide as a single 150 DPI picture, with no text boxes. The slide matches the page precisely, but nothing on it can be edited. It suits a deck that is only shown or handed around.
Built on your device
Pages are drawn and the .pptx is assembled in your browser. The PDF is not uploaded, and nothing is stamped on the slides.
Good to know
This is the repair job for the day the .pptx is lost and only the PDF handout remains. A speaker sends slides as a PDF and one of them needs a new date; a price list built as a deck needs this year's figures. The converter gives you a working start rather than an identical copy.
Text boxes use Arial whatever font the PDF used, so widths can shift a little; select everything in PowerPoint and apply your own font. Photos, shapes and table lines are part of one flat background picture per slide, so you can edit and move text but not an individual photo. Text that is part of a picture, such as a screenshot, stays in the background. Animations, transitions and speaker notes are not stored in a PDF and cannot come back.
Pages with almost no text layer, fewer than eight characters, are treated as scans and go in as pictures; a note under the button says how many. This converter does not run OCR. For the words of a scanned page, PDF to Text can read them, and you can paste them into the slide.
Questions and answers
Is the text on the slides really editable?
Yes, in editable mode: each piece of text is its own text box. Exact look puts the whole page on the slide as a picture instead, and a picture cannot be edited.
Why do the fonts look different?
The fonts inside a PDF cannot be reused, so the text boxes use Arial. Select the boxes in PowerPoint and choose the font you want; a few widths may need a nudge.
What happens to scanned pages?
A page with no text layer is added as a picture, and the tool tells you how many. There is no text recognition in this converter. PDF to Text can read a scan if you need its words.
Why are my slides untitled and the outline view empty?
Slides are built on a blank layout with plain text boxes, not title and body placeholders, so PowerPoint has no titles to list. Add titles in PowerPoint if you need them for navigation.
Will the file open outside PowerPoint?
It is a standard .pptx, so LibreOffice Impress, Google Slides and Keynote can open it too. Check fonts and text widths there as well.
Is there a limit on pages, and is the PDF uploaded?
There is no account, watermark or daily limit, and the PDF is not uploaded; the slides are built in your browser. A deck of several hundred pages takes memory, so a computer copes better than a phone.