What this converter does
PDF to PPT turns each page of a PDF into a slide in a PowerPoint presentation (.pptx) that opens in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote. It's useful when you only have the PDF of a presentation and need to change it, reuse a few slides or present it with your own notes.
You choose one of two results:
- Editable text: each paragraph becomes a text box in the same place on the slide, with its font, size, bold and italic, and the page's images (logos, photos) are added as pictures. You can change any text.
- Exact copy: each page is placed on its slide as a picture, so the slides look exactly like the PDF, but nothing can be edited.
Everything happens in your browser, so the PDF isn't uploaded.
Which option to choose
Use Editable text when you need to change the words: updating figures, fixing a typo, translating slides, or reusing text in a new deck. It works best on text-based slides, such as titles with bullet points.
Use Exact copy when the design matters more than editing: slides with coloured backgrounds, charts, diagrams or lots of shapes. Editable text doesn't keep backgrounds, drawn shapes, charts or text colours, because a PDF stores those as drawing instructions rather than slide objects. Exact copy keeps everything as it looks.
The preview shows the first slide of the editable version before you download, so you can see which suits your file.
How to convert a PDF to PowerPoint
- Drag a PDF onto the upload area, or click to choose it.
- Choose Editable text or Exact copy.
- In Editable mode, check the preview of slide 1.
- Click Download .pptx and open the file in PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote.
The slides have the same shape as the PDF's pages: widescreen PDFs give widescreen slides, and A4 or Letter pages give portrait slides.
Limits and what to try instead
- Scanned PDFs are pictures with no text inside, so only Exact copy works. Run them through PDF OCR first if you need the text.
- Backgrounds, shapes, charts and colours aren't rebuilt as editable objects. Use Exact copy, or recreate them in PowerPoint.
- Animations and speaker notes aren't stored in a PDF, so they can't come back.
- Password-protected PDFs need Unlock PDF first.