PDF to PowerPoint turns each page of a PDF into a slide in a PowerPoint presentation (.pptx). In the default mode, the page design stays exactly in place as the slide background and the text comes back as editable text boxes in matching fonts, sizes and colours. Scanned pages are read with text recognition. The conversion runs in your browser, so your PDF is never uploaded.
How to convert PDF to PowerPoint
- Click Choose a PDF or drop a PDF on the page. If it is protected, type its password and click Open.
- Pick the mode: Editable text on the original page design or Each page as a picture.
- For scans, check the Text language, and tick Read every page as a scan if the PDF’s text layer is broken.
- Click Convert to PowerPoint. The .pptx is saved with the same name as the PDF.
Two modes
| Editable text | Each page as a picture | |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Editable text boxes | Part of the image, not editable |
| Fonts, sizes, colours, line spacing | Kept (fonts mapped to common fonts) | Exact |
| Pictures, shapes, backgrounds | In place, as the slide background | Exact |
| Best for | Updating and reusing slides | Presenting a PDF as it is |
Choose Each page as a picture when the look must be exact, for example a designed handout or a page with unusual fonts, and you only need to present it, not change it.
How the editable mode works
Each page is drawn once without its text, which gives a clean picture of everything else on it: photos, logos, charts, shapes, table lines and colour fills. That picture is placed as the slide background. The text of the page is then put back on top as real PowerPoint text boxes, one per paragraph, in the same place, with the same size, colour and line spacing.
The result looks like the original page, and you can click any piece of text to edit it. Because the pictures and shapes are part of the background, you cannot drag or recolour them one by one. Add new elements on top, or cover something with a shape filled in the background colour.
The slide size is taken from the first page, so a 16:9 PDF exported from a presentation gives 16:9 slides, and an A4 or Letter document gives portrait slides. Pages of another size are fitted and centred inside that slide size.
Scanned PDF to PowerPoint
When a page has no text layer, such as a scan or a photo saved as PDF, it is read with text recognition (OCR) and the recognised lines become editable text boxes over the page. For documents in Korean, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Greek, Tamil or Telugu, pick the language under Text language first. Check names and numbers afterwards: text recognition can confuse similar characters, such as 0 and O.
What converts well
- Slides exported to PDF from PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides: they come back looking like the original deck, with editable text.
- Reports, handouts and one-page flyers you want to present or update.
- Scanned printouts of slides, when the scan is straight and sharp.
What to expect
- Each paragraph becomes one text box that keeps the PDF’s line breaks, so text does not rewrap when you edit it. Short edits fit best.
- Fonts are mapped to common fonts. Unusual display fonts will look a little different.
- Charts and tables are part of the background picture, so their numbers cannot be edited as data. To get table data out, use PDF to Excel.
Tips
- Only need to view the slides? File Viewer opens PowerPoint and PDF files in your browser.
- Need a Word document instead? Use PDF to Word, which rebuilds flowing paragraphs.
- Fix a few words without leaving PDF? Try Edit PDF.
- File too large to email afterwards? Shrink the PDF first with Compress PDF.
Private by design
Your files are processed on your own device and never uploaded. See how it works.