Article to Slide Deck
Turns an article into a set of slide images, merged into PowerPoint and PDF files
by Jim Liu
Editable Slides from Images
by ningzimuSkillMake visuals
Rebuilds slide screenshots, PDFs or image-only decks as PowerPoint files you can edit
The problem it solves
Someone sent you their deck as a PDF, the meeting is tomorrow, and you need to change three numbers that are baked into a picture.
For People who inherit picture-only decksPresenters reusing PDF slides
- Before
- You retype every slide by hand or paste white boxes over the picture to cover the old text.
- After
- You get a .pptx with real text boxes, simple shapes, tables and image pieces in the same slide order, ready to edit.
- Stars
- ★ 3.2k
- License
- MIT
- Cost
- Usage-based
- Level
- Intermediate
- Contents
- Includes scripts
Examples
From the project's own repository.
Overview
This skill takes slides that are only pictures, such as screenshots, a PDF or an image-based .pptx, and rebuilds them as a PowerPoint file with real text boxes, simple shapes, tables and separate image pieces. You attach the files in a chat with your agent and get back a .pptx with the same slide order and any speaker notes kept. It suits people who received a deck they cannot edit and can spare a lot of image-generation usage for the long conversion runs.
Instead of tracing text over a picture, it measures each line's size and position, so headings at the same level come back at one size.
Try these first
Start with the first one: it is a small task you can check easily.
- $image-to-editable-ppt convert this one slide image into an editable PowerPoint: [attach image]First try · uses image credits
- $image-to-editable-ppt convert [deck.pdf] into an editable PowerPoint.long, heavy usage
- $image-to-editable-ppt convert [image-based.pptx] into an editable PowerPoint and keep the speaker notes.long, heavy usage
- Compare slide 2 of the result with the original and list any text that is missing or moved.
Example prompts written by Agent Flows Hub.
What you get
From the creator's documentation.
| Output | What it is | Reads |
|---|---|---|
| Editable text | Readable text rebuilt as real PowerPoint text boxes, with matching sizes per level | Your files |
| Shapes and tables | Simple shapes, lines and regular tables rebuilt as native PowerPoint objects | Your files |
| Image pieces | Icons and photos cut out as separate images by an image model | Your image service |
| Text measurement | Line positions and font sizes measured by Baidu PaddleOCR-VL when you add a free token | Baidu OCR service |
| Page order and notes | Keeps image, PDF and slide order, and copies speaker notes from a .pptx unchanged | Your files |
Good to know
Turn a slide you only have as a picture or PDF page into a PowerPoint slide whose text, simple shapes and tables you can change. Multi-page files are split into page jobs and rebuilt in the original order.
Limits
- The author warns that it is slow and costly: one slide can take over 10 minutes, and converting a deck can cost two to three times as much as generating one.
- Positions and images can shift slightly, so the result is not an exact copy. The author recommends running it in Codex with Full Access, so it will not stop to ask. When a PaddleOCR token is set, page images are sent to Baidu's service; for confidential slides, ask for local-only processing first.
Notes by Agent Flows Hub (original project name: image-to-editable-ppt), written from the creator's documentation, not from running it ourselves. Image to Editable PPT Skill: English README · Image to Editable PPT Skill: usage documentation
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