Turn a PDF into an editable PowerPoint presentation
Drop a PDF and get a .pptx where every page is a slide and every text is a text box you can edit. It all happens inside this browser tab — your file never leaves your device.
Drop your PDF here
or pick a file from your device
- Drop a PDF on the page or press Select PDF.
- Decide whether to rebuild tables and include images.
- Press Convert to PowerPoint. The presentation is reopened and checked before the download is offered.
Objects, not pictures of pages
The easy way to “convert” a PDF to PowerPoint is to paste a picture of each page on a slide. It looks identical and you cannot change a single word. CLEKARA does the opposite: it reads the text, the tables and the images the PDF contains and places each one as a separate PowerPoint object, at the same position and size.
Pages that carry a design — coloured shapes, boxes, icons drawn as vector graphics — get a second treatment, because a PDF does not store those as shapes and they cannot be rebuilt as PowerPoint shapes. For those pages the page itself is drawn as the slide background WITHOUT its text, and the text goes on top as editable text boxes: the slide looks like the original and you can still fix a word, a size or a colour. Pages that are only text, tables and pictures keep the all-objects treatment, which is easier to edit.
Each paragraph becomes a text box with its font size, bold and italic. Helvetica and Times are mapped to Arial and Times New Roman, which have the same widths, so lines break where they broke in the PDF. Tables drawn with lines become real PowerPoint tables, and pictures are placed as pictures. The slide takes the size of the PDF page.
What it will not do
A PDF does not remember the shapes, themes or animations of the presentation it came from: it only stores the drawing. Rectangles, coloured backgrounds, icons and charts are therefore not rebuilt as editable PowerPoint shapes: on the pages that have them, their look is kept as the slide background and the result tells you on how many pages that happened. You can edit every text on those slides, but to change a shape you have to draw it again.
Text keeps its size and position, but uncommon fonts are replaced by Arial, Times New Roman or Courier New. A scanned PDF has no text at all; CLEKARA stops and explains instead of producing slides that are only pictures.
Frequently asked questions
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The PDF is read in memory and the presentation is built by code running in this tab. Nothing is sent to a CLEKARA server.
Can I edit the text?
Yes, on every slide. Every paragraph is a normal PowerPoint text box, and on pages without a design the tables are PowerPoint tables and the pictures are pictures. On pages whose design is kept as a background, the background is a picture of the page WITHOUT its text: the words on top are still text you can edit.
Are the shapes and backgrounds of my slides kept?
Their appearance is. A PDF stores them as drawing instructions, not as shapes, so they cannot come back as editable PowerPoint shapes. On pages that have them, CLEKARA draws the page without its text as the slide background and puts the text on top as editable boxes, and the result says on how many pages it did that.
Will a PDF exported from PowerPoint come back the same?
The text, the tables and the pictures come back editable and in place. The theme, the master slides, the animations and the transitions are not stored in a PDF, so they cannot be recovered.
What size are the slides?
The size of the PDF page: a 16:9 export gives 16:9 slides, and an A4 document gives A4 slides.