Copilot will soon turn PDF documents into PowerPoint presentations

Copilot in PowerPoint will be updated to turn PDF documents into presentations in seconds. According to the latest entry in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap, the new capability will be added to the AI model next month, so users won’t have to wait too long.

Alongside its editing and summarization capabilities, Copilot in PowerPoint is already capable of turning Word documents into presentations, so it was just a matter of time until it would support PDF documents.

Here’s what the entry says:

Copilot in PowerPoint will now be able to support automatically generating a presentation based on a PDF file. This is in addition to the existing support for automatically generating a presentation based on a Word document.

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The capability will be generally available to all Web and Desktop-based PowerPoint users and is probably one of the most useful. Sure, Copilot in PowerPoint is already useful, as we mentioned earlier, but this one will make it easier to sketch a presentation in seconds without having to spend time copying and pasting information from the PDF to the slide manually.

Microsoft will also update Copilot everywhere with the new GPT-4o, the newer and better AI model, which means converting your PDF into a PowerPoint presentation will be more accurate, correct, and intuitive. So, in the end, you might not need to modify the presentation, as you can read it once, and you’re good to go.

Speaking of PDFs, Microsoft might soon update Copilot to convert non-editable PDFs into editable Word documents, or any documents for that matter, while keeping their original layout and design. Though dozens of converters are on the market, no one manages to convert a document entirely while keeping its original layout.

The technology is still at the level of being patented, but the Redmond-based tech giant is thinking about it. Interestingly enough, it does mention converting a non-editable PDF into a PowerPoint presentation, as well, so Copilot’s ability to do that partially leads to thinking Microsoft might release that capability sooner than expected.