What happens to a PDF longer than 50 pages?

Only the first 50 pages are converted. Split the PDF first with our Split PDF tool and convert each part into its own deck.

Can I get the original PDF back after converting?

Only within the hour. Both the PDF you uploaded and the PPTX we produced are permanently deleted 1 hour after upload, so keep your own copy.

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PDF to PowerPoint

Turn each page of a PDF into a full-slide image inside a PowerPoint deck - useful for presenting or annotating a PDF using slide software.

Free, no watermarks
Files deleted after 1 hour
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Why use SnapFetch

One slide per page, sized to match the original page
Works with any PDF, regardless of how it was created
No account, no software to install

How it works

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Choose or drag in a PDF file
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We render every page as a full-slide image
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Download your PPTX deck
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Files are deleted from our servers after 1 hour

When to use PDF to PowerPoint

Useful when a deck was shared as a PDF and you need to present or edit it. Each PDF page becomes one slide. Because a PDF has no notion of slide objects, the result is closer to a rebuilt slide than a recovered one - animations, transitions and speaker notes do not exist in the source and cannot be restored.

Specifications & limits

Output format: PPTX (Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and later)
Slide mapping: One slide per PDF page
Not carried over: Animations, transitions and speaker notes - a PDF does not store them
Accepted input: PDF only (.pdf)
Maximum pages: 50 pages per PDF
File retention: Deleted from our servers 1 hour after upload

Troubleshooting

Text is not editable on the slides

The source PDF has no text layer, usually because it was exported as images or scanned.

Slide dimensions look wrong

Slide size follows the PDF page size. A PDF exported at A4 will not match a 16:9 deck - set the slide size in PowerPoint after converting.

The upload is rejected before anything happens

The file is over the 20 MB cap. Compress it first, or split a long PDF into smaller files and process them separately.

References

The published specification for the formats involved, and the open-source software that actually performs this conversion.

pypdf documentation
The library used for PDF page operations - splitting, merging, rotation and encryption.

Frequently asked questions

Not directly - each slide is a picture of the original page, not editable text or shapes. This is intentional: no tool can reliably rebuild a PDF's layout as native, editable slide content, so we're upfront that this is image-based rather than pretending otherwise.

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