How to Turn a PDF Into a PowerPoint Slide

I am using Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac to create PowerPoint presentation. I scanned a multi-page PDF and would like to add that to my presentation so that I can just click through the PDF without having to create a new slide for each page in the PDF. Is there a way to do this?

Microsoft PowerPoint doesn’t play nicely with PDFs on the Mac. However, we can use the power of Preview and Automator to automate the process of converting the PDF to individual images, and then creating new slides based on those images.


Automator is really helpful here. it converts the PDF into individual images, ready to be added to your existing PowerPoint presentation.

To do this, open Automator (located in /Applications), and then drag-and-drop the following actions into the Automator workflow:

1. Ask for Finder Items.

2. Render PDF Pages as Images.

3. Create PowerPoint Picture SlideShows. 4. Insert New PowerPoint Slides.

Once these actions have been inserted into Automator, click the Run button (or press Command + R to run). A Finder dialog will appear, allowing you to select a PDF