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. Present it in Scholarly, share it by link, or, on a paid plan, download it as PDF or PowerPoint (.pptx) or save it to Google Slides.

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.

The deck is generated as a finished PDF, so slides are not edited in place. 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 source with those changes. On a paid plan you can also download the deck as a PowerPoint (.pptx) file to reorder or trim slides in your own editor; each slide is exported as its rendered visual, not editable text.

Yes, on a paid plan. Every plan can present the deck in Scholarly and share a viewing link. Premium and Laureate can download it as a PDF or a PowerPoint (.pptx) file, or save it to Google Slides when Google Drive is connected (Scholarly creates a separate copy in your Drive). Each slide exports as its rendered visual, so you can reorder, remove, or add slides in PowerPoint or Google Slides, but the slide text is not editable there. Free plans view, present, and share by link only.

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 Credit limits. Premium includes 10 AI Creation Credits each week and supports longer documents.