How to convert PDF to PowerPoint
- Choose a PDF (up to 100 MB and 200 pages).
- Pick Editable text to change the words later, or Pictures only for an exact look.
- Press Convert to PowerPoint and download the .pptx file.
How it works
The converter reads where each piece of text sits on the page, its size, weight and colour, and joins pieces on the same line. Lines with the same size and even spacing are kept together in one text box, so a paragraph stays a paragraph. The page is then drawn without its text and placed behind the boxes as a picture, which keeps logos, photos, charts and coloured backgrounds. Text colours are measured by comparing the page drawn with and without its text.
Example: slide size
Slides take the size of the first page, at 72 points to the inch. An A4 page (595.28 × 841.89 points) gives 8.27 × 11.69 inch slides, and a 24 pt heading stays 24 pt. If a later page is US Letter (612 × 792 points), it is scaled by 0.973 to fit the A4 slide and centred, with about 0.5 inch above and below.
Tips
- Presentations saved as PDF convert best, because each page already is a slide.
- Text that sits on a rotated angle, such as a side label, gets its own turned text box.
- Tables come through as text boxes. For tables you want to calculate with, use PDF to Excel; for long documents, PDF to Word is easier to edit.