Convert legacy PowerPoint (.ppt) to Markdown
Pulls slide titles, bullets and speaker notes out of a PowerPoint 97-2003 deck as Markdown. Everything runs inside your browser, so the file is never uploaded.
When this helps
Anyone reusing an old talk
A deck from years ago is still useful, but the words are trapped in slides
Pull the text out as Markdown and use it as the starting point for an article or an internal document
Anyone feeding material to an LLM
.ppt cannot be pasted into a chat, so the deck cannot be summarised
Convert first, then ask for a summary of what the deck argues
Anyone writing up a talk
The script is in the speaker notes and reading it means opening the file
Get each slide's text and its notes together in one document
Anyone without PowerPoint
A .ppt arrives and installing Office to read it once is not worth it
Drop it here and read the contents — nothing is uploaded
FAQ
- Is my file uploaded to your server?
- No. If your browser supports WebAssembly (WASM, a technology for running software inside the browser safely and quickly), the conversion happens entirely on your device. Reading legacy formats loads a 2.2MB engine on the first run only.
- Will every .ppt convert?
- No. Across 21 real files, 15 converted and 5 contained no text data at all — decks built entirely from photographs or screenshots have no characters to extract. When that happens the tool says so rather than producing an empty file that looks like success.
- What happens to images and charts?
- They are not included. The conversion runs inside your browser, so there is nowhere to put them. No placeholder text is inserted either: adding words that were not in your deck makes them indistinguishable from the real content once pasted somewhere else.
- Which other formats does this page accept?
- .pptx, .docx and .xlsx, .doc and .xls, OpenDocument (.odp, .odt, .ods), .rtf, .epub, .csv and .pdf. The format is detected from the file's contents, not its name.
- Can it open password-protected files?
- No. An encrypted deck cannot be read, so the tool tells you it is password-protected and stops.
- What is the file size limit?
- 20MB per file.
Related tools
- PowerPoint (.pptx) to Markdown — For the modern format — converts with no extra download at all
- Legacy Word (.doc) to Markdown — For Word 97-2003 documents
- Legacy Excel (.xls) to Markdown — For Excel 97-2003 spreadsheets
- PDF to Markdown — When the deck was shared as a PDF instead