PDF to Google Slides, with slides you can edit

How to get a PDF into Google Slides

Part 1: Convert the PDF to PPTX

1. Upload the PDF. Open the Image2PPT converter and drop in your PDF, up to 35MB per file. New accounts can sign up and try 3 slides free.
2. Choose the pages. In the Pages field next to the file, type the slides you need, such as 1-5 or 3, 6-8. One job takes up to 50 pages.
3. Download the PPTX. Each page becomes one slide. You get a standard .pptx file with the slides in page order.

Part 2: Import the PPTX into Google Slides

As a new presentation:

1. Open Google Drive and click New → File upload, then choose the .pptx file.
2. When the upload finishes, double-click the file, or right-click it and choose Open with → Google Slides. You can start editing right away.
3. To keep a Google Slides copy rather than a PowerPoint file stored in Drive, choose File → Save as Google Slides.

Into a deck you already have:

1. Open the deck in Google Slides and choose File → Import slides.
2. Go to the Upload tab and choose the .pptx file.
3. Click the slides you want, tick Keep original theme if they should keep their own look, and click Import slides.

Tested: a converted PDF slide in Google Slides

We exported a board-report slide to PDF, converted it with Image2PPT, and brought the PPTX into Google Slides with File → Import slides. These screenshots are from that test.

One thing to watch: when we replaced “Brief” with the longer word “Review”, the title wrapped onto a second line and ran into the subtitle. If you make a line of text longer, widen its box or drop the font size a little.

What you can edit after the import

• Text: titles, paragraphs, bullet lists, labels, and numbers come in as Google Slides text boxes. Click and type.
• Shapes: cards, boxes, callouts, lines, and arrows come in as shapes you can move, resize, and recolor.
• Tables: tables with clear rows and columns come in as real tables, so you can change a cell or add a row.
• Images: photos, illustrations, logos, and detailed icons stay as images in their original positions. You can move, crop, or replace them, but not edit what is drawn inside them.
• Charts: it depends on the design. Simple bar and line charts are often rebuilt from shapes, as in the test above; dense or decorative charts stay as images.

Keeping those parts as pictures is what lets each slide still look like the original page, while the words and numbers you are most likely to change become editable.

Check these after importing

Google Slides reads PowerPoint files well, but it has its own font library and text engine. A quick pass over the deck catches the usual differences:

• Fonts. If the file uses a font Google Slides doesn't have, it shows a similar one instead. Select the text and pick a font from the font menu; More fonts opens the full Google Fonts list if you need to match your brand.
• Line breaks. A substitute font can be a little wider or narrower, so a title may wrap onto a second line or a label may run past its box. Widen the text box or drop the font size by a point.
• Tables. Click into a few cells and confirm each value sits in the right one. If a font change makes text wrap, rows get taller; drag the row borders to tighten them.
• Slide size. When you import into an existing deck with a different page size, check that nothing near the edges is cut off or stretched.

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What it costs

Sign up to try 3 slides free. No credit card required. Your free credits last 7 days. After that, there is no subscription: you buy credit packs and spend one credit per PDF page, and purchased credits stay on your account until you use them. The smallest pack is 30 credits for $5.99. Importing the PPTX into Google Slides costs nothing extra. See full pricing.

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