How to convert a PDF to PowerPoint
PDF to PowerPoint builds a presentation in which every page of the PDF is a slide. Text goes into editable text boxes, and the rest of the design (photos, backgrounds, charts) becomes the slide background.
It helps when all you have is the PDF version of a deck and you need to fix a figure, translate the titles or reuse slides in your own talk.
Step by step
- Upload the PDF with Choose PDF.
- If it is a scan, use the Recognize and recover the content panel to run OCR and convert.
- Run the conversion.
- Download the PPTX and open it in PowerPoint, Keynote, LibreOffice Impress or Google Slides.
What is editable and what is not
What you can change directly is the text: titles, bullet points and captions. Images, icons and charts are part of each slide's background, so you cannot move a single photo or edit a chart's data. In return, the look stays faithful to the PDF.
If you need to change something in the background, cover it with a shape in PowerPoint or place a new image on top.
Review tips
Check fonts and line breaks: if the original typeface is not installed on your computer, PowerPoint substitutes it and text boxes may end up too short. Resizing the box or the font usually fixes it.
Slides keep the proportions of the PDF pages, so a portrait A4 PDF gives portrait slides. Up to 50 pages and 50 MB per job.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I edit the images on the slides?
- Not individually: they are part of the background. The text is editable.
- Does it work with scanned PDFs?
- Yes. The scan is detected and you can run OCR before converting to get editable text.
- Are animations kept?
- No. A PDF does not store animations or transitions, so there is nothing to recover.
- What format do I get?
- A PPTX file, compatible with PowerPoint and most presentation software.
- Can I convert several PDFs at once?
- Yes. Upload several documents and each one becomes its own presentation; you get them together in a ZIP.