Convert a PDF to PowerPoint

The page arrives as it looks, not as separate text boxes, and that is deliberate: a PDF keeps no text frames and no titles, so anyone promising fully editable slides is either guessing at your layout and mangling it, or sending your file to a server. What you do get is every page's real text in that slide's speaker notes, so you can copy from it and search it inside PowerPoint.

The size of your file's first page. A deck exported from PowerPoint comes back 16:9 exactly as it was, and an A4 report comes back A4. A page that differs from the rest, such as a wide table bound into a portrait report, is placed whole and centred at its correct proportions rather than being stretched to fill the slide.

Yes. A line containing Arabic is marked as Arabic and set right-to-left, so PowerPoint reaches for an Arabic font and lays it out in the correct direction. The letter order goes through the same reading engine the extract-text tool uses.

Yes, and the slides look right, because the page is drawn rather than read. The speaker notes stay empty though, since a scan is images rather than text. If you want the words as well, run the file through our free OCR tool first, then convert it.

Because every slide carries a full page picture. Pick normal resolution for viewing on a screen or emailing, and high for projecting onto a wall. You can also convert a page range instead of the whole file.