Best video to PowerPoint converter in 2026: we ran four on the same talk
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Most people who search for a “video to PPT converter” already have a recording with slides in it, and they want those slides back as a deck. Every tool in this category says it does that. So we gave four of them the same recording and counted. We make Video2Any, so read the numbers with that in mind — but they are counted in a way you can repeat yourself, and the result we like least is in here too.
The test
The recording is Giorgio Uboldi’s talk about RAWGraphs at FOSDEM 2021, published under CC BY 2.0. We used its first 9 minutes 50 seconds, so it fits every free tier. The speaker sits in a small window in the corner, which is what most lectures look like.
The right answer comes from the slides themselves: each one has its page number in the footer. That gives 19 slides, counting the title card. Two of them are short: page 21 is on screen for 6 seconds and page 22 for 3. In the middle, from 2:06 to 3:06, the speaker switches to the software for a minute. Those screens are not slides, so we count them separately.
Every tool ran at its default setting on 2026-10-02. A slide counts as found when the tool kept at least one picture while it was on screen.
Results
| Tool | Slides found | Pictures out | Same slide again | From the live demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video2Any | 19 / 19 | 33 | 3 | 11 |
| Video2PPT | 17 / 19 | 27, plus its own promo slide | 4 | 6 |
| video2slides (default) | 19 / 19 | 59 | 18 | 22 |
| video2slides (frame difference) | 18 / 19 | 38 | 6 | 14 |
What the numbers mean
Video2Any
It found all 19, including the 3-second page 22. The cost is extra pictures: 11 come from the software demo, and 3 repeat a slide whose content changed while it was up (a slide built up line by line, and one with a video playing inside it). Its Pages slider decides how many you keep. Moving it toward Fewer drops the briefest pictures first, so the demo screens go before any slide that stayed up: at 25 pictures it still had 18 of the 19.
What it does not do: the slides come out as pictures, so the text on them is not editable. It runs in your browser, the file is not uploaded, and you need no account. The first 30 minutes of every recording are free, and a free export ends with one Video2Any credit slide.
Video2PPT
It gave the shortest deck: 27 pictures, most of them slides. It looks at the video every 10 seconds (its capture times are 0:00, 0:10, 0:30…), and the two short slides, pages 21 and 22, fell between two looks. It also adds a promotional slide of its own to the deck. The free plan covers videos up to 10 minutes, three a month, with a watermark. It offers an editable PowerPoint and Google Slides export; we did not test how well the text is rebuilt.
video2slides (open source)
A Python program that you run on your own computer. With its default method it found all 19, but it took 4.5 minutes and saved 59 pictures, a third of them from the demo. Its faster frame-difference mode finished in 18 seconds with 38 pictures and missed page 22. There is no review screen: you clean up the folder of images yourself. It suits someone who wants to script the job.
Video to Slides (videotoslides.org)
We could not run it. Its pricing page says the free plan needs no account, but the “Start extraction” button opened a sign-in page. The free plan also offers only a fixed interval (a picture every 3 seconds by default — about 200 for this talk); finding the slides automatically is a paid feature, from $9.90 a month. Its strength is rebuilding slides as editable text.
Which one to pick
- You need to edit the text on the slides: pick a tool that rebuilds them (Video2PPT, or Video to Slides on a paid plan) and check a few pages before you rely on it. See what an “editable PPTX” actually is.
- Long lectures, and missing a slide is worse than deleting one: Video2Any. No upload, no account, and you review the result next to the video before export.
- A short clip now and then: Video2PPT’s free plan covers up to 10 minutes.
- You want to automate it and do not mind cleaning up: video2slides.
Check any converter in five minutes
Pick a recording where you know the slides, and look for three things. Is the slide that was up for only a few seconds there? A tool that looks every 10 seconds will miss it. Is a slide that was built up line by line there once, finished? And how long a recording does the free plan take? For a lecture, 10 minutes is not enough. The reasons converters miss slides are the same in every tool.
To try it on your own file: MP4 to PowerPoint, or lecture video to slides.