How to Turn a Document or PDF into Slides with AI
Turn a Word doc, PDF or report into a presentation with AI. The best tools for document-to-slides, a step-by-step method, and how to keep the output accurate.
AI slide generator — the #1-rated PowerPoint maker in the ChatGPT store; turns text, articles or PDFs into decks with PowerPoint, Google Slides and PDF export.
SlidesGPT is an AI slide generator best known as the #1-rated PowerPoint maker in the ChatGPT store, with a reported 10M+ presentations created. You paste in text — a blog post, an article, a PDF's contents or your own notes — or give it a prompt, and its Text-to-Presentation tool turns that into a slideshow you can export. It runs both as a standalone web app and as a ChatGPT app, and offers a developer API, so it fits people who draft in ChatGPT and want a real, exportable deck out the other side.
The most important thing to know: creating and previewing decks is free, but exporting or downloading them requires a paid plan. Pro starts at a low $7.49/month and unlocks PowerPoint, Google Slides and PDF export with a monthly download allowance.
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Cheap entry with real export. Pro is $7.49/month — among the lowest here — and includes editable PowerPoint, Google Slides and PDF export, so you're not stuck with a locked preview.
Built for the ChatGPT workflow. As the top-rated PowerPoint maker in the ChatGPT store, it slots into how a lot of people already draft, and a free API tier (up to 100 presentations/month) makes it useful to developers too.
Text-first generation. Paste an article, notes or a PDF's text and it structures a deck around it — handy for turning written content you already have into slides.
SlidesGPT runs as a web app and a ChatGPT app; it doesn't run inside PowerPoint or as a Google Slides add-on. On paid plans it exports to editable PowerPoint (PPTX), Google Slides and PDF. On the free Starter plan you can create, view and share, but not export.
Free Starter ($0) lets you create, view and share decks — but not export them. Pro ($7.49/month, or $89.99/year, ~25% off) unlocks PowerPoint, Google Slides and PDF export, 30 AI images a month, presentation mode and 10 downloads a month. Pro XL ($22.50/month, or $269.99/year) raises that to 50 downloads a month. There's also a Team plan (€10/seat/month), a Custom ChatGPT App tier ($19.99/user/month) with branded templates, and usage-based API pricing above the free tier. Confirm current figures on the pricing page.
People who draft content in ChatGPT or work from written material and want a low-cost way to get a genuinely editable PowerPoint or Google Slides file — plus developers who need programmatic deck generation via the API.
The free plan can't export, so it's really a paid tool for finished work, and even paid plans cap monthly downloads (10 on Pro). Design is functional rather than premium, and it's text-first — better for turning writing into slides than for elaborate custom layouts. Note that it's a different product from the separately listed SlidesAI.
Pricing, free-plan limits and export options change often — check the current details on SlidesGPT's site before relying on them.
An AI presentation maker that turns a prompt or a pasted document into a finished-looking deck in about a minute. A standalone web app — great free plan for on-screen decks, but clean PowerPoint export and branding are paid.
A lightweight text-to-slides add-in for Google Slides and PowerPoint: paste notes, a topic or a document and it generates a starter deck. Genuine free plan, low price, huge install base — thin on design and editing.
AI presentation generator that turns prompts, documents, PDFs and URLs into slide decks, with export to PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote.
An AI presentation maker that turns a prompt or a pasted document into a finished-looking deck in about a minute. A standalone web app — great free plan for on-screen decks, but clean PowerPoint export and branding are paid.
A standalone AI presentation app built on rule-based smart templates that auto-format every slide. Built for business teams who want on-brand, consistent decks without manual design — no free plan, editable PowerPoint export on every paid tier.
A generative-AI-first presentation maker — "ChatGPT for presentations." You describe a deck and it builds the whole thing, then you refine conversationally. Genuine free plan; fast, but a thin independent track record so far.
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