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PDF to PowerPoint
Slides as a .pptx deck. Free, no sign-up.
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How to convert PDF to PowerPoint
One slide per page, at the page’s own size, with the text in editable text boxes and the figures as pictures.
- Select your PDF. Slide decks, reports and papers all work.
- Convert. Each page becomes a slide — text in editable boxes, tables as tables, figures as pictures.
- Download the .pptx. Edit it in PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides.
The pages as slides
This is the default, and it is a straight conversion: slide one is page one, the deck is set to the page's own size rather than forced into 16:9, and every page comes across in place. Text arrives in editable text boxes at the position it held on the page, in the same face, size, weight and colour; lines that clearly belong together share a box, so a paragraph is one object rather than six. Aligned bands become real PowerPoint tables, and the page's figures are placed as pictures.
Nothing is a flat image of a page, so every element can be selected, moved, restyled or deleted. A slide is a positioned medium to begin with — text boxes are its native model — so unlike a Word conversion there is no trade here between looking like the page and being editable. A page that had to be read with OCR arrives as editable text instead of the scan.
A summary deck instead
Switch the option to “A summary deck” and you get something different: a NEW deck that summarises the document rather than reproducing it. The size covering the most characters is taken as body text; a line at least a quarter larger, of twelve words or fewer, opens a section. Within a section, sentences are scored by how often their significant words recur across the document, then put back into reading order. Five bullets go on a slide, longer sections spill into (2) and (3), and every slide carries its section's full text as speaker notes.
That deck is text only, on a plain 16:9 white theme, and it depends on a size hierarchy — a document whose headings are the same size as its body collapses into one Overview section. It is genuinely useful for turning a report into a talk; it is just not what “convert to PowerPoint” means, which is why it is no longer what you get by default. For a summary written in new words rather than selected from the document's own sentences, the AI Summarizer is the tool — one of only two here that send anything to a server.
Questions
How many slides do I get?
One per page, in order. A twelve-page PDF gives twelve slides, each the size of its page, so nothing is squashed into a widescreen frame.
Is the text editable, or a picture of the page?
Editable. Every line goes into a real PowerPoint text box with the face, size, weight and colour it had in the PDF, and figures are placed as separate pictures. Nothing on the slide is a flattened page image.
Can I get a summary deck instead?
Yes — switch the option to “A summary deck”. That builds a new deck from the document’s structure: a title slide, section slides of key points, and each section’s full text in the speaker notes.
How many slides will I get?
One per page. A twelve-page PDF gives twelve slides, in order, each the size of its page. Choosing “A summary deck” instead changes that completely: it builds a new deck from the document’s structure — a title slide, then one to three slides per section — so the count comes from the headings rather than the page count.
Do images and charts come across?
Yes, in the default mode. Each figure on the page is located and placed on the slide as its own picture, so you can move or resize it. The summary deck is text only — headings, bullets and speaker notes on a plain white theme.
Is the text real text or a picture of the page?
Real text, in ordinary PowerPoint text boxes, with the face, size, weight and colour it had in the PDF. Lines that belong together share a box so a paragraph is one object. Nothing on the slide is a flattened image of the page.
Why is my deck not 16:9?
Because the pages are not. The slide size is set to the source page size, so an A4 document produces A4 slides and the layout is not squashed to fit a widescreen frame. You can change the slide size in PowerPoint afterwards if you need to present it. The summary deck is always 16:9, since it is a new deck rather than a copy of the pages.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. Every tool on this site runs inside your browser, using the same engine as the Folia desktop app. Your file is read from your disk into your browser’s memory, processed there, and handed back as a download. It never crosses the internet, so there is nothing for us to store, leak or hand over.
Is there a file size limit?
We impose none. The only ceiling is your own device’s memory, which differs from one computer to another — so we read what your browser reports about this machine and show the resulting limit on the page. Light tools like merge and rotate handle far more than heavy ones like OCR, which must render every page. For anything larger, Folia for Desktop has no limit at all.
Is it really free? Do I need an account?
Yes, and no. Every tool is free and unlimited, with no watermark and no sign-up. Ads pay for the site, and your own computer does the work, which costs us nothing. Signing in with a paid Folia plan simply removes the ads.