PDF to slides: a clean deck from your reading

Upload your PDF and Scholarly reads its structure — headings, sections, and the flow of the argument — then turns it into a slide deck: a title, a short agenda, one idea per content slide, and a closing summary. You edit the draft and export it.

It parses the document's real layout rather than chopping the text at fixed intervals. It detects headings and sections, follows the order of the argument, separates claims from supporting detail, and keeps figures, citations, math, and code anchored to the right slide — so the deck mirrors the source instead of flattening it.

Text-based PDFs such as lecture handouts, research papers, and textbook chapters work best. Scanned or photographed documents work too, but the deck is more accurate when the text is clean and selectable.

Yes. Every slide is fully editable — add or remove slides, rewrite bullets, reorder the deck, and change titles. The AI gives you a structured starting point, not a locked file.

Yes. Export to PowerPoint (.pptx), Google Slides, or PDF, then keep refining wherever you present.

Yes. Figure and citation references stay anchored to the slide they belong to, and math notation and code blocks are kept intact instead of being flattened into plain text.

Both. Splitting a dense PDF into one idea per slide makes the structure of the argument visible, which is the first step to understanding it rather than memorizing it. You can then use the deck to self-test, present, or revise.

Short handouts and long chapters both work; the deck simply scales to the level of detail the source supports. Very long documents are best on a paid plan, which raises creation limits and document length.

Yes. Scholarly supports 70+ languages, so you can generate the deck in the language you study or present in, regardless of the PDF's original language.

This page is tuned for the PDF-to-slides case: you already have a document and want the deck to follow it faithfully. The AI Slide Generator is the better choice when you're starting from a topic, a prompt, or loose notes rather than a file.

Yes, free to start with lifetime free AI creation limits. Premium includes 10 AI creations each week and supports longer documents.