Convert PDF to PowerPoint

A deck that only survives as a PDF is hard to update. This PDF to PowerPoint converter makes one slide per page and sizes the slides to match the pages, so a 16:9 PDF deck becomes 16:9 slides and a letter-size report becomes portrait slides. The result is a standard PPTX file that PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote and LibreOffice Impress can open.

Everything runs in your browser. The PDF is not uploaded anywhere, there's no sign-up and no watermark.

In editable mode each page is split into layers:

• Text goes into separate text boxes at its original position, with the original size, color, bold and italic, and the same line spacing. Titles, bullet points and captions can each be edited or moved.
• Photos and pictures are placed as separate images you can move, crop or resize.
• Graphics such as lines, colored bars, filled backgrounds and chart strokes are drawn without the text and used as the slide background.

Why a background picture instead of shapes? PDF artwork is often made of hundreds of tiny paths that would fall apart as PowerPoint shapes. As a background it stays faithful and doesn't get in the way while you edit the text. Pages without such graphics get no background at all, just text and images.

Table text lands in text boxes in the cell positions, with the grid lines in the background. To calculate with a table, use PDF to Excel.

Pick editable when you want to change wording, update numbers or move content into your own template. Pick picture slides when you just need to present the PDF from PowerPoint and every glyph and chart must look exactly as designed; you can still add text boxes, arrows and notes on top.

Standard quality suits most screens and projectors. Use the sharp setting for small print or high-resolution displays, and the smaller setting when the deck has to go by email.

• Fonts: fonts embedded in a PDF are rarely installed on your computer, so a close standard font is used and a line may run a little longer or shorter. Widen the text box if a line spills over.
• One paragraph per line: to keep exact positions, each line is its own paragraph and text boxes don't auto-wrap. Join lines when you rewrite longer passages.
• Drawn lettering: some PDFs store letters as drawn shapes (often logos and decorative type). Those stay in the background and can't be edited.
• Rotated text is placed in a rotated text box.
• Mixed page sizes: a presentation has one slide size, so pages of other sizes are scaled to fit and centered.
• Scanned PDFs have no text layer, so pages come across as pictures. Run OCR first if you need the text.
• Only need a few pages? Enter a page range, or split them out with Split PDF.