One of the terrible things about creating a presentation? You mix all this text, media into a container that can be hard to process by AI. Some might not want to do that, and I understand that perspective. But I have had a few 50+ slide decks that I wanted AI to process, to look at and do stuff with. The question is, “How?”
One solution involves printing your slide deck (notes and all) to PDF, then running it through a PDF to text tool. There are quite a few on the web, but the issue for me is that my slide deck PDFs are huge.
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Boxoft PDF to Text (Windows OS) does a phenomenal job of converting my PDF’d slide decks into text. Then, I can drop them into Google Notebook LM or other AI tools to parse and review:
Boxoft Free PDF To Text Converter (freeware)
Boxoft PDF to Text Freeware is easy-to-use software to convert read-only PDF documents into text files for you to reuse or edit PDF content. The standalone program can help you to form create editable Text with preserving original layout on the fly. And the output ASCII text will show you all text without losing any formatting information. And most important, it’s totally free for you to use forever.
This tool works great in converting my huge slide deck PDFs into text that I can drop into AI tools. Give it a try.
One Example
I had a request from one of my participants for an outline of a presentation. An outline?!? I didn’t want to spend an hour or more coming up with an outline.
I dropped the PDF of my slideshow into Boxoft PDF to Text, then into Google Gemini 2.5 pro (experimental). The result was fantastic. I did end up doing some editing, but I had a working document in less than 10 minutes. Contrary to those who say “AI doesn’t REALLY save time,” it saved me TIME. I’ve had to make outlines from my presentations and I always:
- Cut it short
- Leave out important information because I either don’t want to write it or type it
- Fail to summarize perfectly (I can summarize, but the AI did it quite well)
- Go with the best formatting
I have already used this tool over 7-8 times in the few days I’ve had it.
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