Convert PDF to PowerPoint
Turn a PDF into PowerPoint slides you can edit, one slide per page, without uploading it anywhere.
Convert PDF to PowerPoint without uploading it
To convert a PDF to PowerPoint, add it here and click Convert to PowerPoint. Each page becomes one slide in a .pptx file. The text comes back as text boxes you can edit, the photos as pictures you can move or replace, and the rest of the page stays behind them as drawn. The conversion runs on your device, so the PDF is never uploaded.
| Input | PDF files, one or several at once. A password-protected PDF asks for its password, which is used in your browser and nowhere else. |
|---|---|
| Output | PDF to PPTX: one .pptx for each PDF, one slide per page, the size of the first page. Several PDFs come back as a ZIP. No creation date is written into the file. |
| Two kinds of slide | Editable slides (text boxes and movable photos), or Exact look (each page as a picture). |
| Scans | Free OCR on your device, in English and 10 other languages, Hindi among them. A two-page phone scan took about 4 seconds. |
| Speed | 100 pages in about a second with Editable slides, 8 seconds with Exact look, on a laptop. |
| Does not | Rebuild charts, shapes or tables as PowerPoint objects, read handwriting, or keep links clickable. |
How to convert PDF to PowerPoint
What carries over, and what doesn't
The usual reason to convert PDF to PowerPoint is a deck that only survives as a PDF. So on 25 October 2026 we made a five-slide deck in PowerPoint, saved it as PDF, converted that PDF here, and opened the result in PowerPoint next to the original. It took about half a second.
| In the deck | In the converted .pptx |
|---|---|
| Title and subtitle | Editable, in the same place, in Calibri Light and Calibri as in the original |
| Bulleted list with one bold word and one red line | One text box, bold and red on the right words |
| Photo | A separate picture you can move, resize or replace, turned the right way |
| Coloured box with text in it | The box stays in the background; its text is editable |
| Four-row table | The grid and shading stay in the background; each column's text is editable |
| Hindi heading and bullets | Every word right, editable |
98% of the deck's 103 words came back as editable text. All the words came back from a six-page report saved from a browser and from a Word document: 240 and 262 words.
This test found three faults, fixed the same day. Light titles came back heavy, because the PDF names the face "Calibri-Light" and only "Calibri" was kept. The cells of a table row ran together into one line. And in Hindi, a vowel sign is stored as a piece of its own, placed over or before its letter, so words such as में and हुई came apart. All three are now put right.
Editable slides or exact look
Editable slides take each page apart: every line of text is read with its position, font, size and colour, every photo that can be lifted out is copied, and both are put back on top of the rest of the page. Exact look skips all of that and keeps each page as one picture, which is identical to the PDF but cannot be edited. Measured on 25 October 2026:
| Editable slides | Exact look | |
|---|---|---|
| 5-slide deck, 296 KB | 69 KB | 314 KB |
| 6-page report with a large photo on every page, 5.4 MB | 204 KB | 1.0 MB |
| 100 pages of text, 109 KB | 141 KB, about 1 second | 31 MB, about 8 seconds |
Editable slides are usually the smaller file, because text is stored as text and a photo used on several pages is stored once. Photos keep up to 288 pixels per inch at the size they are placed, which is sharp on any screen or projector.
Scanned PDFs: OCR with or without
A scan is a picture of a page, so it holds no text to lift out. With Read scanned pages (OCR) on, each scanned page is read on your device. Every word read with confidence is painted out of the background with the paper colour around it, and comes back as editable text in the place and colour it was printed. Words the reader is unsure of are left in the picture, so a misread never replaces what was there. Pages that already hold text are converted as usual either way.
We checked the words against the text each scan was printed from, on 25 October 2026:
| Scan | OCR on | OCR off |
|---|---|---|
| Two-page agreement from a phone scanner app, 208 KB | All 166 words editable, 44 KB, about 4 seconds | Pictures, 239 KB |
| One-page notice scanned at 200 DPI, 807 KB | 99% of 260 words editable, 203 KB | A picture, 571 KB |
| Colour certificate with seal and photo, scanned at 200 DPI, 729 KB | 97% of 90 words editable, title still blue, 270 KB | A picture, 524 KB |
The text is set in Arial, because a scan does not say which typeface it was printed in. Bold is judged from how heavy each line looks, so a bold heading can come back regular. The seal, signature and photo stay in the background, as drawn. We measured English scans; the other ten languages use the same reader as OCR PDF, where each was tested. The first time, the language model is downloaded once, about 3 MB for English.
What stays in the background
A PDF records where things are drawn, not what they were. A chart is lines and filled shapes, and a table is a grid with text that happens to line up. So these stay in the slide background, exactly as drawn, while their words become text boxes on top:
- Charts, shapes, arrows and table grids. To change one, delete the background picture and draw it again in PowerPoint.
- Text that reads sideways or slanted on the page, such as a label written up the side of a chart, and text drawn as outlines. A page turned in the PDF is fine: a landscape page saved sideways comes out as a landscape slide with every word editable.
- Photos cropped to a shape (a circle, say), and logos with see-through edges, which already look right where they are.
With OCR off, or in Exact look, a scanned page comes out as a picture of the page.
Check for yourself that nothing is uploaded
- Open this page and press
F12(or right-click and choose Inspect), then open the Network tab. - Add your PDF and click Convert to PowerPoint.
- Click any request that appears and open its Payload (or Request) tab: none carries your file.
We ran the same check with a script on 25 October 2026, converting a 3.2 MB file. The page made nine or ten requests, for its own code, the PDF engine and Google's ads, and none carried any part of the file. The only one that sent anything was a 3 KB ping from the ad script. With OCR on, the browser also downloads the language model the first time. The same test for other tools is in why browser-based PDF tools are safer.
Frequently asked questions
Can I edit the text in the PowerPoint file?
Yes, with Editable slides chosen. Each block of text on the page becomes a text box with its own words, size, colour, bold and italics. In our test of a PowerPoint deck saved as PDF, 98% of its words came back as editable text, and all of them in a Word document and a report.
Will the slides look the same as the PDF?
Close to it. The text sits where it was and the rest of the page is kept behind it as drawn. If the PDF's fonts are not on your computer, PowerPoint uses a similar one, so a line can come out a little wider or narrower. For slides that must match exactly, choose Exact look, which keeps each page as a picture.
Are tables and charts editable?
Their words are; their shapes are not. A PDF keeps a table as lines and text that happen to line up, so the grid stays in the slide background and each column's text becomes a text box over it. Charts, arrows and coloured shapes stay in the background too.
Does it work on scanned PDFs?
Yes, with Read scanned pages (OCR) on, which switches itself on when you add a scan. Each word is read on your device and comes back as editable text where it was. In our tests 97% to 100% of a scan's words came back. With OCR off, a scanned page is a picture.
Does it work with Google Slides and Keynote?
The output is a standard .pptx file. We opened every test file in PowerPoint and exported its slides to compare with the PDF. Google Slides, Keynote and LibreOffice Impress open .pptx files too, but we have not tested them.
Is there a limit on pages?
No fixed limit. A 100-page text document converted to 100 editable slides in about one second on a laptop, as a 141 KB file. Exact look is slower and much bigger, about 300 KB a page, because every slide is a full-page picture.
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