The slide Codex just made for you is a picture. It looks like a deck — headline, bullets, a tidy table — but every one of those is paint on a canvas. You cannot click into the headline to fix a typo, cannot drag the box, cannot change a number in the table. The usual escape route is to save the image, open a browser, upload it somewhere, download the result, and carry it back. The Image2PPT plugin removes that round trip: the images go straight from your conversation to Image2PPT, and an editable PPTX comes back as a download link in the same task.
You live in the terminal, the architecture review is on Thursday, and drawing boxes is not how you want to spend Wednesday night. Sketching the slide in the conversation is fast. Getting something your team can actually edit afterwards is the part that used to break.
The second draft always needs a number changed, a label translated, a logo swapped. If the slide is a flat picture, every one of those edits means going back and regenerating the whole thing — and losing the parts that were already right.
A picture-shaped deck becomes the recipient's problem. They open it, try to fix a date, and discover there is nothing to click. Handing over real text boxes and real shapes means they can finish the work without coming back to you.
Image2PPT has exactly one address, and all three clients connect to the same one:
https://image2ppt.com/mcp
It is a Streamable HTTP MCP server that uses OAuth. That means there is no API key to copy, no token to paste, and no configuration file you are forced to edit. What you do is put that address into your client, then sign in to your own Image2PPT account once in a browser and approve the request.
The three routes below are independent. Pick one and finish it — you do not need all three:
A few clicks in the Codex desktop app's menus. This is the route almost everyone should take.
For using it on chatgpt.com rather than in the Codex App. It is a separate setup that does not carry over from the first route.
The command-line equivalent. Not required — if you use the app, you never have to touch a terminal. It authorizes the same way as ①.
image2ppt.https://image2ppt.com/mcp./mcp, and confirm that image2ppt is connected.Use Image2PPT to convert this image into an editable PPTX.If step 9 sends you to a browser error mentioning redirect_uri, see the last entry in troubleshooting below.
This route is for people who work in ChatGPT on the web rather than in the Codex App. It and the route above are two separate settings: adding the server in the Codex App does not make it appear in ChatGPT on the web, and the other way round.
https://image2ppt.com/mcp.The wording and placement of developer mode are controlled by OpenAI, so we cannot promise what it is called or which menu it sits under in your account — some account types may not have it at all. If you cannot find it, write to support@image2ppt.com; you can also use ① Codex App instead.
This section is optional. If you already set it up in the Codex App, do not do it again — the command line is another way to do the same thing, not a required step.
codex mcp add image2ppt --url https://image2ppt.com/mcp
codex mcp login image2ppt
codex mcp list
codex mcp add records the server address in your Codex configuration.codex mcp login opens a browser to complete the OAuth authorization — the same thing the Authenticate button does in the app.codex mcp list shows the registered servers and their connection state, which is how you confirm this one actually connected.The flags belong to the Codex CLI and can change between versions. codex mcp --help always prints the exact syntax for the version you have.
Codex has an official plugin directory; once a plugin is listed there you can search for it by name and install it without typing an address. Image2PPT is not listed yet.
So this route does not work today; add Image2PPT by hand through any of ①②③ above. We will say so in product updates when the listing is actually live.
The images you hand to the plugin are uploaded to Image2PPT's servers for processing. They are not converted on your own machine. That is worth thinking through before you install, especially if the slides contain something that should not leave your organization.
The fact that runs the other way: Image2PPT never receives your OpenAI or ChatGPT identity. The connection uses standard OAuth — you sign in to your own Image2PPT account in a browser and approve — so the only account we know about is that one. The permission covers converting slides and reading those results, and you can revoke it at any time.
Not every part of a slide should be rebuilt, and pretending otherwise produces worse decks than admitting the limit. The split is deliberate:
Titles, body copy, bullet lists, the big numbers in a metrics row, table cells with their labels and values, plain boxes and rounded cards, arrows joining one block to another, side-by-side comparison panels, captions. These become things you can select, retype, recolour and move.
Photographs, illustrated characters, hand-drawn flourishes, dense charts with labels sitting on top of each other, textured or gradient backdrops. These stay as image elements you can move and resize but not redraw stroke by stroke — recreating them badly would be worse than keeping them.
If your balance is short when a conversion starts, the images are already saved and nothing has been charged. You get a link, buy credits in the browser, come back to the same conversation and say continue.
The saved job then starts. You do not re-send the images, and the same deck is not billed twice — a repeated request lands on the job that already exists rather than creating a second one. If a slide fails during conversion, that slide is not charged.
On the left, a generated slide image of the kind you would produce in a conversation. On the right, the same slide after conversion, opened in PowerPoint. The headline, the body text, the metric cards and the table cells are separate objects at that point, not regions of a picture.
Almost every "it won't install" ends up being one of the same few things. Do these six in order first, then read the specific symptoms below if it still fails.
https://image2ppt.com/mcp (ending in /mcp, with no extra slash or path) and the type must be Streamable HTTP — not stdio, not SSE. Getting one of these two wrong is the most common cause by a wide margin./mcp or codex mcp list. Trust what those report, not whether a row appeared on the settings screen.codex mcp login image2ppt). If that does not do it, delete the server entry and add it again from step 1 so the client drops whatever it cached.The client cannot reach the address. Nine times out of ten the URL or the type is wrong: confirm https://image2ppt.com/mcp and that the type is Streamable HTTP. Also confirm this machine can reach image2ppt.com at all — a corporate proxy or firewall blocking it produces exactly this symptom. Save and restart after any change.
The address works; you simply have not authorized yet, or the authorization expired. Go back to MCP servers and click Authenticate (on the command line, codex mcp login image2ppt), then sign in and approve in the browser. Authorizations do expire, so being asked again after a long gap is normal rather than an error.
First check the real state in Codex with /mcp (or codex mcp list) — sometimes the screen just has not refreshed. If it still says not connected, restart Codex and look again, then authorize once more.
Do not confuse this with a different problem: if the browser was signed in to another Image2PPT account of yours, the authorization succeeds and Codex shows as connected — it is simply spending that account's credits and showing its history. To tell them apart, ask Codex to call get_account and check the email it reports; if it is the wrong one, switch accounts in the browser and authorize again.
Usually the entry has not really been loaded, or the type is wrong — only a remote server type such as Streamable HTTP goes through OAuth, and only those get that button. Restart Codex first. If it is still missing, delete the entry and add it again from step 1, paying particular attention to the Type field.
Clients cache a server's tool list and authorization details. After we ship an update, your copy can still be the old one — which shows up as a wrong tool list, or a valid authorization being treated as invalid. The fix is to make it fetch again: restart Codex, and if that is not enough, remove the server, add it back, and authorize again.
If the error contains invalid_redirect_uri, or the sentence "Only OpenAI Codex/ChatGPT connector callbacks are supported", the server rejected the local callback address Codex uses to receive the result. This is not something you mistyped, and there is nothing to change on your side. Please contact support@image2ppt.com with the complete error text (again, not the authorization link itself — it carries a one-time code). In the meantime the ChatGPT developer mode route does not use a local callback, so you can use that one.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Does Image2PPT learn my OpenAI identity? | No. Your OpenAI or ChatGPT account is never shared with us. We only know the Image2PPT account you signed in to yourself. |
| How does it know which account to charge? | You approve the connection once, in a browser, while signed in to Image2PPT. The permission granted belongs to you and spends your credits. |
| What is the permission allowed to do? | Convert slides and read the status and download links of those conversions. It cannot change your account or see anyone else's work. |
| Can I take it back? | Yes, from your Image2PPT account at any time. Converted decks you already downloaded are unaffected. |
| Do the images stay on your servers? | Once converted, originals and the finished PPTX stay downloadable until you delete them (a few exceptions are in the privacy policy). Nothing trains a model. |
| Codex plugin | Website | Developer API | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best when | The slides are already in your conversation | The files are on your disk | Another program does the converting |
| Slides per job | Up to 20 | Up to 50 | Up to 50 |
| Signing in | Approve once in a browser | Normal sign-in | A key you copy into your code |
| Account and credits | One account, one balance, shared across all three | ||
Pay-as-you-go in all three cases: one credit per slide, packs from $5.99 USD up to $24.99 USD, no subscription. See full pricing → · Developer API →
Settings → MCP servers → Add server. Name image2ppt, Type Streamable HTTP, URL https://image2ppt.com/mcp, Save, restart the Codex App, then come back and click Authenticate to finish the browser sign-in. The full walkthrough is in the section above.
No — two separate settings. Adding the server in the Codex App does not make it appear in ChatGPT on the web, and the other way round. Set it up once, wherever you actually work.
No. The codex mcp add commands are an optional alternative to the same setup. If you installed it in the app, you never need to open a terminal.
Not yet. Image2PPT is not listed in the official Codex plugin directory. Add the server URL by hand with the steps above — the Codex App, ChatGPT developer mode and the CLI all work. We will say so in product updates when the listing is live.
Yes. This is not a local conversion tool: images are uploaded to Image2PPT's cloud service, and the conversion involves third-party cloud infrastructure and model services. Retention follows the privacy policy. For company confidential material, client data, personal information or regulated data, check your own organization's policy first.
Because what it produced is a picture. An image model paints the words onto the canvas the same way it paints the background — once the file is written, a heading is not a heading any more, it is a patch of coloured pixels. There is nothing for PowerPoint to click into. Image2PPT reads that picture and rebuilds the text and structure as real objects where the result is clean enough to be worth keeping.
No — that round trip is the reason this plugin exists. The images go straight across, and the finished file comes back as a link in the same conversation.
No. We never receive your OpenAI or ChatGPT identity. You sign in to your own Image2PPT account in a browser and approve a permission limited to converting slides and reading those results. You can revoke it whenever you like.
Your images are saved before that point and nothing is charged. Buy credits from the link, come back, say continue — the saved job starts without re-uploading anything, and the same deck is never billed twice.
Up to 20 images in a single call, assembled into one deck in the order you gave them. One credit per slide. The website handles up to 50 per job if you need more.
Yes. Where the picture came from does not matter; how legible it is does. Sharp text and an uncluttered layout convert better than a blurry photo of a projector screen.
Yes — one account, one credit balance. Credits bought on the website work here and the other way round, and every conversion shows up in the same history.
They are processed on Image2PPT's servers. Once a conversion runs, the uploaded originals and the finished files are kept until you delete them or close your account; an upload you never convert is discarded when its session expires after 30 minutes. Nothing trains a model. The exact terms for these and the remaining exceptions are in the privacy policy.
Yes. A new account gets free credits on first sign-in (valid for 7 days), enough to convert a few slides and judge the result before paying. There is no subscription and purchased credits do not expire monthly.
Colours are reproduced from the image. Fonts are mapped to ones PowerPoint actually ships with, so the hierarchy holds even when the original typeface is not available — swapping in your brand font afterwards takes seconds.
English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and the major European languages. The plugin also answers you in English or Chinese depending on which you are speaking, and the checkout page follows the same choice.