Convert to PowerPoint

[JcTcom]

A quick Google search says that I can convert a PDF to a PowerPoint file using my FlexiPDF 2025 software.

However I can not seem to find such an option either under the Save As or the Export options?

Is the Google AI just out to lunch? or am I missing something?

Thanks.

Carl.

[SuperTech]

Currently, this feature is not available, but I have forwarded this as an improvement suggestion.

[JcTcom]

Sounds good.

But it still means that the google AI was out to lunch lol.

Carl

[Woody44]

AI is known to lie.

Someone once asked ChatGPT why something it "said" wasn't true. The answer (straight from ChatGPT) was something like, "I am programmed to continue a conversation. If I can't find what you want, I'll make something up."

An attorney used ChatGPT to write his brief in a significant civil law case. The brief was full of citations supporting this attorney's client's side. When the opposing attorneys tried to rebut the citations -- they couldn't find them. Those attorneys reported it to the judge, who also researched the citations and couldn't find them. The attorney (#1) then admitted that he had used ChatGPT to draft the brief, and that neither he nor his staff had bothered to verify the validity of any of the citations. Both the attorney himself and the law firm for which he worked were sanctioned by the court.

DO NOT TRUST artificial intelligence.

[JcTcom]

Hehe.

That's too funny.

I generally skip over the "AI" search results as I usually find them either totally irrelevant to my search or to be useless common knowledge that I wouldn't have had to search for in the first place. Plus for some reason it never actually provides any links to the resource it used for follow up etc...

AI still has quite a ways to go before showing any sign's of actual "intelligence" lol.

Carl

[lgsl]

To be honest, what you ask makes little sense. The whole idea with PDF was to be an universal, standardized portable format (PDF stands for Portable Document Format) meaning *everything* required for the document to be displayed as it was intended to is in the file itself. It was envisioned and designed as a way to exchange documents. Is not a format meant to work as a container for later be transformed into something else, like a fully featured PPT presentation. In fact PDF as is, in some cases can not even be edited. If you have a pdf, for instance, where all text was converted to curves (images), editing such text, while possible, is a pain. Is better to simply ask for the source file, and if not available, recreate the contents on PowerPoint or whatever. There are file formants that they were never meant to be converted to something else, PDF is one of those cases.

[JcTcom]

That may be how PDF was initially designed. But there are already now many programs that can export PDF to other formats including PowerPoint. The main reason is that the Adobe Acrobat software is so outrageously priced that no one wants to pay for it.

I personally would opt for a less expensive PDF editor (In fact I currently use FlexiPDF as my main PDF Editor). But I had a client inquire about it so I googled to see if there was a viable method for exporting to PowerPoint.

I found several means of doing so and the search also indicated (Erroneously) that FlexiPDF is capable of it.

Again this is not something I would need for myself. Just was searching on the viability for a client & was inquiring more about the fact that Google "AI" said that FlexiPDF could do it and when I tried to find the option it does not exist.

Carl