Convert a file you already have
Every page here takes one kind of input and shows what comes out the other side, including the parts that do not survive the trip. No conversion is lossless, so each page says where the losses are.
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Presentations
Convert a PDF to a presentation
To convert a PDF to a presentation, attach the PDF to the slide generator, set the slide count and say who the deck is for. The file is read for its content and the content is rebuilt as slides, so this is not a page for page conversion. A report argues in paragraphs and a deck asserts in headlines, which is why the result keeps the facts and rewrites the sentences.
Convert a Word document to slides
To convert a Word document to slides, either save it as a PDF and attach that to the slide generator, or copy the sections you need into the prompt box. A .docx file is not an accepted attachment, so one of those two routes is required. The PDF route gives the planner a summary and key points of the whole document, while pasted text is used exactly as written, and which one you pick decides how close the slides stay to your wording.
Make slides from screenshots
To make slides from screenshots, attach them to the slide generator with a line saying what each screen is for, and the deck is written from the words they contain. Then place the screenshots themselves on the slides in the builder, because the generator reads a picture and never pastes it. There are two different jobs hiding in this request, and mixing them up is why people are disappointed.
Outline to slides
To turn an outline into slides, paste it into the prompt box with one line per slide and set the length slider to the number of lines. Each line then becomes one slide, in your order, with a layout chosen for what that line is about. This is the case where you are not asking for ideas: the structure is settled, and an outline pasted this way is treated as a specification rather than a suggestion.
Record a presentation
You present the deck exactly as you would live, and a recording is made of it: the slides, your narration, your camera in a corner, and any marks you draw. When you stop, you download the file. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is hosted.
Turn rough notes into a presentation
To turn notes into a presentation, paste the notes into the slide generator as they are and add two lines saying who the deck is for and what you want from them. The planner expands the shorthand into sentences, orders the points into an argument and lays each one out on a slide. Notes are written for the person who took them, so the real work is inferring what the fragments mean, and that is where your two lines help most.
Finished examples of this kind are on the presentation examples hub.
Flyers
Edit a flyer image by rebuilding it
To edit a flyer image, attach the JPG or PNG to the flyer generator and let it rebuild the words into a new design. The picture is read for its text, and that text is placed into a real template, so every line can be selected, rewritten, recoloured and moved to another size afterwards. A flyer you only have as a photograph is a picture of text, and tracing it would only give you another picture.
Edit a PDF flyer without the original file
Print PDFs outlive the people who made them. When the artwork file is gone and only the export survives, the useful question is not whether a PDF can be rebuilt but how much of it comes back, and the answer depends on something most people would never guess: the PDF is read as pictures, not as text.
Finished examples of this kind are on the flyer examples hub.
Documents
Convert a PDF to an editable document
To convert a PDF to an editable document, attach it in the document generator and it comes back as editable blocks in a theme you can change. The file is read as page images, so sections, headings, numbering and labelled fields carry over reliably, while long paragraphs are rewritten from that reading rather than copied word for word.
Photo of a document to editable, from your phone
A phone photo of a document becomes editable when you attach it in the document generator: the text in the photo is transcribed word for word and rebuilt as headings, paragraphs and tables you can change. Each photo is one page, and up to five go in one run, so this is the route for short documents where the exact wording matters.
Recreate an existing document, and every one like it
To recreate an existing document, attach the file or photos of it in the document generator, ask for the same sections and wording, and it comes back as an editable document you own. The payoff grows with a set: six inherited policies rebuilt one by one can all take the same theme, so they finally look like they came from one organisation.
Scanned document to editable
A scan carries no text, only a picture of text, so everything depends on how good the picture is. This page is about the difference between a scan that rebuilds cleanly and one that costs you an afternoon.
Send a document for signature
To send a document for signature, upload the PDF to a new envelope, add each signer's name and email, place their signature fields on the page and send. Every signer gets a personal link by email, and when the last one signs you get back a certified signed PDF and a certificate of completion.
Finished examples of this kind are on the document examples hub.
Forms
Convert a paper form to an online form
To convert a paper form to an online form, give the generator the form in whichever shape you have it: a photo, a scan, or its questions typed out. It rebuilds the questions as fields you can publish on a link, and the paper version can live on as a printable PDF.
Convert a PDF form to an online form
To convert a PDF form to an online form, attach the PDF to the form generator and it rebuilds the questions as fields you can publish on a link. The PDF is read as page images, so an exported PDF and a scanned one go down the same path.
Convert a Word form to a web form
To convert a Word form to a web form, save the document as PDF and attach it to the form generator, or paste its questions into the prompt box, and the questions come back as fields you can publish on a link. Word files cannot be attached directly.
Scan a form and make it digital
To scan a form and make it digital, scan it to one PDF at about 300 DPI, attach it to the form generator, and the pages come back as sections of an online form you can publish. The scanner settings and one sentence about repeated blocks decide most of the result.
Turn a list of questions into a form
To turn a list of questions into a form, paste the list into the form generator's prompt box and say what the form is for. Each question comes back as a field with a type, options where you listed them, and a required flag, ready to publish on a link.
Turn a photo of a form into a digital form
You can turn a photo of a form into a digital form by attaching the phone photos to the form generator, one page per image, and it rebuilds the questions as fields. A flat, square, evenly lit shot is the whole trick, because the photo is transcribed line by line.
Finished examples of this kind are on the form examples hub.
Videos
Capture screenshots for a tutorial, one step at a time
To capture screenshots for a tutorial, share your screen once, then press a button for each step and it snaps one still frame. There is no recording, no video file, and nothing is processed from footage afterwards. What you end up with is a set of PNG screenshots and a walkthrough built from them.
Text to video with voiceover
To make a text to video with voiceover, paste the text into the video generator as a brief, leave the voiceover switch on, and the director splits it into scenes with a narration line and captions for each. The spoken track is synthesised from those lines and the picture is fitted around it. The interesting problem is timing: a spoken line and a visual cut are two different clocks, and here the voice is treated as one continuous track that the scenes adjust to.
Turn a one line idea into a video
A single sentence is a legitimate input, and it is worth knowing exactly how much is being invented on your behalf when you use one. The answer is: the arc, the scene roles, every word on screen, every spoken line, the voice, the tone and often the format as well.
Turn a script into a video
If you already have an approved script, the default behaviour will annoy you. The promo director rewrites for pace, aiming at five to eight words a scene, because that is what fits a two and a half second cut. Getting your own wording through is possible, but it takes a deliberate second step.
Turn images into a video
Upload eight pictures and eight different decisions get made. Some become scenes. Some are grouped so they play together in one. Some are judged to be references you uploaded to explain the video rather than to appear in it, and those are read for their content and then deliberately kept off screen.
Turn product photos into a video ad
A listing photo set is a good half of a video ad and a bad whole one. The pictures answer what it looks like. An ad also has to answer why now, how much, and what to do next, and none of those three are anywhere in a photograph, so they have to come from you.
Turn screenshots into a video
You have a folder of screenshots from documenting something, and they are already in roughly the right order. The work is deciding which of them deserves its own step, which are duplicates, which belong together, and what the narration says over each one.
Finished examples of this kind are on the video examples hub.
E-signatures
Form response to signed PDF
A form response becomes a signed PDF when the form carries an e-signature field: on submission, the answers are rendered to a PDF and sent as an envelope to each signer the form names. The submitter, an approver or both then sign in order, and the result is a document rather than a row in a table.
Send an AI document for signing
The usual sequence is export to PDF, upload it somewhere else, then drag boxes over the printed lines and hope your aim was good. When the document was written here, the lines already know where they are.
Sign a PDF online yourself
Sometimes nobody else is involved. You have a PDF that needs your signature on it, and you want it back as a proper certified file rather than a photo of a scribble pasted into a page.
Finished examples of this kind are on the e-signature examples hub.