Whitepapers, reports, research papers, ebooks. PechaKuchaPPT reads the PDF, distills it into 20 sharp slides, and designs a 6:40 presentation you can deliver today.
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No account needed for your first deck · always exactly 20 slides · 6:40 runtime
What this tool does
PDFs are the universal long-form document. Whitepapers, research papers, market reports, training manuals, ebooks, internal playbooks — most knowledge in companies still lives in PDFs. Turning that knowledge into a presentation is one of the most common, most tedious knowledge-work tasks there is.
The PDF to PechaKucha tool removes the tedium. Upload any text-based PDF and the AI extracts the document's argument, picks the 20 most presentation-worthy points, and builds a designed deck around them. Charts, tables, and complex figures are referenced in speaker notes; the slides themselves stay clean and on-pace.
Behind the scenes the converter does more than text extraction. It maps the document's section hierarchy, identifies figures and their captions, isolates key statistics, and weights paragraphs by argument density so the 20 chosen slides actually carry the document's thesis rather than its filler. The output is a presentation, not a summary.
How it works
Upload any PDF up to 50MB. The file is processed in your browser session and not retained after the deck is generated. Scanned PDFs work if they have an OCR layer; pure-image PDFs need OCR run first.
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PechaKuchaPPT reads the full document and identifies the 20 strongest beats — the headline claim, the key supporting evidence, the chart that matters, the conclusion. You see the outline before slides are drawn, so you can confirm nothing important got missed.
Each of the 20 ideas becomes a slide with a short title, supporting text, a relevant visual, and 20-second auto-advance pacing. Tables and charts from the source are referenced in speaker notes. Export to PowerPoint or rehearse in the editor.
Features
Long whitepapers, research papers, and ebooks are handled. Output is always exactly 20 slides — the AI weights by argument density, not page count.
If the PDF has headings, the AI uses them as anchors when picking the 20 ideas. Your deck reflects the document's own structure instead of skipping around.
Important charts get a slide of their own with the caption and key takeaway; secondary tables are referenced in speaker notes so the slides stay readable.
Every slide ships with speaker notes drawn from the source paragraphs — useful for rehearsal and Q&A backup.
Read the PDF in English, present in another language. The chat sidebar can translate the entire deck in one message.
Your file is processed for generation and not retained for training. You can delete the deck and the underlying source after generation.
Use Cases
Grad students and researchers turning a 30-page paper into a 6:40 talk for a journal club or class.
Sales engineers turning a 40-page technical whitepaper into a buyer-friendly walkthrough they can deliver in a meeting.
Operations leads turning quarterly reports into a 20-slide briefing for the company all-hands.
Authors generating a teaser deck from a chapter of their ebook to use as a webinar or LinkedIn talk.
Comparison
Most teams build PDF presentations by reading the whole document and writing slides from memory. Here is what changes:
The format
PDFs are designed for print. Their structure assumes a reader holding the page, with full control of pacing and the option to flip back. Presentations are the opposite: linear, time-boxed, listener-controlled. The mismatch is why PDF-derived decks usually fail — they inherit the document's density without inheriting the reader's control.
The PechaKucha 20×20 format is the cleanest answer. Twenty slides is room for the document's argument but not for its evidence dumps. Each 20-second slide forces one idea per beat. By the time the deck is done you have the report's thesis compressed into a 6:40 spoken story — and the supporting evidence sitting in your speaker notes where it belongs, ready for the Q&A.
That is why the PDF to PechaKucha tool always outputs exactly 20 slides and never offers a 'longer' option. The constraint is what makes the format work.
Best practices
PDFs vary in quality more than any other source format. A few practices keep your conversion output sharp.
A PDF exported from Word or LaTeX always converts better than a scanned page. If you only have a scan, run an OCR pass first — Preview on macOS does it for free.
The converter picks one or two charts to elevate to slide level and references the rest in notes. Resist the urge to add more figures back into the slides — the format gets weaker with each visual you add past the AI's pick.
Open the speaker notes after generation. They contain the document quotes and details that did not fit on a 20-second slide. Use them during Q&A.
When a report gets a new version, re-upload it. The tool produces a fresh deck in minutes instead of you re-editing the old one slide by slide.
FAQ
If the scan has an OCR text layer (most modern scans do), yes. If the PDF is pure images with no extractable text, the AI cannot read the content — run an OCR pass first (Preview on macOS, Adobe Acrobat, or any free OCR tool will do it) and try again.
50MB per file. That comfortably covers research papers, whitepapers, and most ebooks. If your PDF is larger, the most common reason is high-resolution embedded images — flatten or compress the PDF and re-upload.
Your file is used only to generate your deck. It is not retained for training and not shared with third parties. You can delete the generated deck and the underlying file from your account at any time.
Important figures are pulled onto their own slide with a clean caption and the key takeaway. Secondary figures stay in the speaker notes so the slide is not cluttered. The AI tends to elevate one or two figures total — that is intentional, because a PechaKucha slide should land one idea, not a chart-heavy data dump.
No, and that is the point. The PechaKucha deck uses its own template typography so all 20 slides look consistent and presentable. What is preserved from the PDF is the structural meaning — section headings, list items, emphasis, and citations — not visual style choices like fonts and colors from the original document.
No account is required to generate your first PechaKucha deck. You can try the tool, see the output, and only sign in if you want to save the deck to your library, export to PowerPoint, or come back to edit later. Anonymous use is supported so you can evaluate the quality before committing.
Yes — every slide is fully editable. You can rewrite text directly, swap images through the chat sidebar, change the template, tweak the color scheme, switch fonts, or ask Mia (the built-in AI designer) to refine any slide with a natural-language message. Nothing is locked.
PechaKucha is a presentation format invented in Tokyo in 2003. Each deck has exactly 20 slides, each slide is shown for exactly 20 seconds, and slides auto-advance. Your total runtime is 6 minutes and 40 seconds. The constraint forces clarity — one idea per slide, no overcrowding.
Get a designed 20-slide PechaKucha deck in minutes. Always 6 minutes 40 seconds long, always one idea per slide, always ready to present.