OfficeIMO.Pdf.PowerPoint 3.6.1

OfficeIMO.Pdf.PowerPoint

Reconstruct PowerPoint content from supported PDF pages.

dotnet add package OfficeIMO.Pdf.PowerPoint

Import PDF pages

The general PDF route reconstructs supported page content as native slide objects. This is a new semantic projection, not recovery of the original slide deck: unsupported or ambiguous content remains explicit in the conversion report.

using OfficeIMO;
using OfficeIMO.Pdf.PowerPoint;
using OfficeIMO.Pdf;

PdfDocument pdf = PdfDocument.Load("handout.pdf");
OfficeConversionReport report = pdf.SaveAsPowerPoint("handout-editable.pptx");

foreach (OfficeDiagnostic finding in report.Diagnostics) {
    Console.WriteLine($"{finding.Code}: {finding.Message}");
}

Use the explicit visual profile when a page image is the intended result. Each image is movable and resizable, but text, vectors, charts, and tables inside it are not editable:

using OfficeIMO;
var visual = PdfPowerPointExportOptions.CreateVisualPages();
OfficeConversionReport visualReport = pdf.SaveAsPowerPoint(
    "handout-visual.pptx",
    visual);

foreach (OfficeDiagnostic finding in visualReport.Diagnostics) {
    Console.WriteLine($"{finding.Code}: {finding.Message}");
}

This is a new semantic projection, not recovery of the original slide deck. Original charts, groups, themes, animations, notes, and authoring intent cannot be recovered reliably from arbitrary PDFs; omissions and simplifications remain explicit warnings. OfficeConversionReport.HasLoss and ThrowIfLoss() use typed approximation, omission, and failure evidence. Editable-content and visual-page modes therefore report their inherent reconstruction or non-editability instead of claiming lossless conversion.

Use hybrid mode when the original page must remain visible while detected tables stay editable. Row and column caps split a large overlay across duplicate visual-page slides, and each overlay keeps the same centered, aspect-preserving page geometry as its background:

using OfficeIMO;
var hybrid = PdfPowerPointExportOptions.CreateHybrid();
hybrid.MaxRowsPerSlide = 18;
hybrid.MaxColumnsPerSlide = 6;

OfficeConversionReport hybridReport = pdf.SaveAsPowerPoint(
    "handout-hybrid.pptx",
    hybrid);

Console.WriteLine($"Editable table segments: {hybridReport.ItemsWritten}");
Console.WriteLine($"Visual-only page content: {hybridReport.HasLoss}");

Use editable-table mode when detected data is more important than page appearance:

using OfficeIMO;
var options = PdfPowerPointExportOptions.CreateEditableTables();
options.ReadOptions = new PdfLoadOptions {
    Profile = PdfReadProfile.Structured,
    PageSelection = PdfPageSelection.Parse("1-3")
};
options.MaxRows = 400;
options.MaxRowsPerSlide = 18;
options.MaxColumnsPerSlide = 6;
options.MergePageContinuations = true;

OfficeConversionReport report = pdf.SaveAsPowerPoint(
    "financial-statement-tables.pptx",
    options);

foreach (OfficeDiagnostic finding in report.Diagnostics) {
    Console.WriteLine($"{finding.Code}: {finding.Message}");
}

Console.WriteLine($"Non-table page content detected: {report.HasLoss}");

Generated capability summary

This table is generated from the package-neutral OfficeIMO operation catalog. The detailed source contracts remain authoritative for feature-level behavior and limitations.

The complete rows for OfficeIMO.Pdf.PowerPoint are published in the generated operation contract.