Turn a PDF or Word Document Into a Presentation With AI

You have a 40-page report and a meeting on Thursday. Or a reading you've assigned, and a class that may or may not have read it. You don't want the PDF squashed onto slides. You want a short presentation that says what matters in it.

PPTX.ai does that. Give it a PDF and it writes new slides from what the document says. It can also write poll questions and a quiz about it, so you can check whether the room took it in.

Two ways to start

A new presentation. In the studio, give your presentation a name, then open Start from a PDF. Choose your PDF and press Create presentation.

A presentation you've already started. Attach a PDF to your message to the assistant and say what you want from it: "Six slides on the findings in section 4, and a quiz on the key numbers." The new slides are added to the end of your presentation.

What you can choose

Slides. How many content slides to write. Six is the default.
Quiz questions. Questions with a right answer, checked against the document. Three is the default.
Polls. Questions with no right answer, such as "Which of these changes affects your team most?" One is the default.
Focus. Optional, and the most useful setting for a long document. Tell it what to concentrate on and who it's for: "chapters 2–3, for new hires" or "the budget section only, for the board."

You can ask for up to 50 of each, and set any of them to zero. If all you want is a quiz on the reading, ask for no slides.

What happens next

While it works, placeholders for your new slides appear in the editor, and you can carry on with other things. When it's done, the slides, polls and quiz questions are in your presentation, in order. From there it's the same as any other presentation:

Edit anything. Open a slide and change the words. Slides are written in Markdown, so if you've ever bolded a word in Slack, you know how. Editing yourself doesn't use any credits.
Ask for changes. "Make slide two shorter." "Turn the last slide into a quote." "Add a slide on next steps."
Change the look. Describe it, as in "warm and old-fashioned, with a serif for the headings," and the whole presentation changes together.
Present it live. Open the lobby, and people join on their phones with a QR code. They answer the polls and quizzes as you go, and you choose when to show the results.

Starting from Word

PPTX.ai reads PDFs. To use a Word document, save it as a PDF first. In Word, choose File, then Save As (or Export on a Mac), and pick PDF. Google Docs can do the same from File, then Download.

If what you have is an outline rather than a finished document, you don't need a PDF at all. Paste the outline into the studio and ask for slides.

Good to know

Generating from a PDF costs 10 credits each time, whichever way you start.
The PDF can be up to 20 MB.
PPTX.ai doesn't convert the PDF page by page, and it doesn't make a PowerPoint file. You get a new presentation written from what the document says, which you edit and present in your browser.

Ideas to try

A long report for a short meeting. Ask for five slides and a single poll: "Which of these recommendations should we take on first?"
A reading for a class. Set slides to zero and ask for eight quiz questions, then run them at the start of the lesson to see who did the reading.
A policy everyone has to know. A few slides on what changed, then a quiz on the rules that matter most.
A dissertation or thesis defence. Use the focus to pick out the method and findings, and let the slides follow the order of the argument.

Open the studio and start from your next PDF.

We updated this post in October 2026 for the current version of PPTX.ai.