Turn a PDF into an editable PowerPoint you can actually study from

Upload a PDF and Scholarly's AI reads its real structure (headings, sections, figures, citations, equations, and code), identifies the main ideas, and rebuilds them as a coherent slide deck with a title, agenda, one idea per slide, and a conclusion. You get a finished deck instead of a blank one, and on a paid plan you can download it as a PowerPoint (.pptx) file.

Every plan, including Free, can present the deck in Scholarly and share a viewing link. Downloading it as a PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF file, or saving it to Google Slides, requires a paid plan: Premium ($30/mo, 10 AI Creation Credits per week) or Laureate ($99/mo, 80 per week).

Text-based PDFs (lecture handouts, research papers, textbook chapters, papers in PDF form) convert best. Scanned documents work, but the deck is more accurate when the text in the PDF is selectable rather than a flat scanned image.

Slides are not edited in place in Scholarly. To change the structure, wording, length, or style, regenerate with custom instructions (for example "add a slide on X" or "keep it to 10 slides") and the AI rebuilds the deck from your PDF. On a paid plan you can also download the deck as a .pptx file or save it to Google Slides; each slide comes through as its rendered visual, so you can reorder slides and add your own around them.

Yes. Math notation and code snippets are kept intact when they're extracted from the source PDF, rather than being flattened into plain text.

No. It reads the content and rebuilds it as a real deck — one idea per slide with proper titles and bullets — so you can present it, not just flip through page images.

Upload your PDF, and the AI parses its real structure (headings, sections, columns, figures, citations, equations, and code), then rebuilds it slide by slide as a structured deck. You start from a finished deck instead of a blank one: present it in Scholarly, share it by link, or on a paid plan download it as a PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF file or save it to Google Slides.

Yes, it's free to start with lifetime free AI Creation Credit limits. Premium includes 10 AI Creation Credits each week and support for longer documents.

Yes. On a paid plan, open the Export menu on the finished deck and choose PowerPoint (.pptx) to download a file that opens in PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides. Each slide comes through as its rendered visual, so the design is preserved exactly; the slide text is not delivered as editable text boxes. Word (.docx) and PDF downloads are available from the same menu. The Free plan can present and share by link but cannot download.

Yes. Connect Google Drive to your Scholarly account, then choose Save to Google Slides from the Export menu on a paid plan. Scholarly creates a separate copy of the deck in your Drive that you can open in Google Slides straight away; the original stays in Scholarly. If Drive is not connected yet, the menu shows a Connect Google Drive option first.