Get the original slides back from a video
The deck file disappears; the recording stays. This is the recovery route: open the video, let the browser find every page that stayed on screen, delete the repeats and the transition frames, and export the deck as PowerPoint or PDF. Each page comes back as a picture of the screen, exactly as it appeared.
Pages are extracted with the video in this tab. Nothing is uploaded for the extraction.
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Real pages from the FOSDEM 2021 talk "Latest tech, great! Accessibility, not so much." (CC BY 2.0 BE), extracted by the slide detector and shown as they were exported.
- The real pages, one image each
- Export as PPT or PDF
- First 30 minutes free
How to recover the slides
Open the recording
Drop the file into the converter; MP4, WebM and the usual formats decode in your browser. When the video only plays on a course site or inside a player page, the Chrome extension reads the pages from the tab instead.
Check the pages it found
The editor lists each page in order, with the moment it appeared. Merge the ones that were split in two, delete the ones that caught a transition, and crop the player frame and camera edge off before you export.
Export the deck
Save the pages as PowerPoint (.pptx), as a PDF with one image per page, or as plain images. Going through the editor first is what keeps transition halves out of the finished deck.
Exports
- PowerPoint .pptx
- One slide per page, each slide a full-frame image. When you also ran Spoken notes, the notes land in the speaker notes.
- One image per page, no text layer.
- Images
- JPG pages, or one contact sheet of the whole deck.
- Word
- The pages gathered into a .docx document.
What you get, said plainly
- Every page is an image of the screen. The text on it cannot be edited as text, and this run does not create a new deck in a theme of your choice.
- The PDF has one image per page and no text layer. It prints and shares, but a search inside it finds nothing.
- Slides that flash past inside a fast animation can be missed. The editor lets you step through, merge pages that were split, and delete transition frames; where a page never stayed up long enough, no extractor can bring it back.
- A copy-protected player shows the extension blank frames, and no feature here gets around that.
When this is the right route
A deck you no longer have
The PPT stayed on an old laptop and the recording is still here. Extracting the pages brings the content back without asking anyone to re-send the file.
A class someone else gave
When you are allowed to keep notes from the recording but the instructor never shared the deck, the pages that appeared on screen are what you can recover.
Pricing
- The first 30 minutes of every video are free.
- $2.99 unlocks 2 full-length recordings, paid once, and never expires.
- Monthly $9.99 with $10 of credit each month; one-year pass $29; Lifetime $49. Prices include tax.
Questions
- Is this different from converting a video to PPT?
- The pages come from what the video actually showed. Nothing is synthesized: no new title slide, no rewritten bullet text, no restyled deck. To generate a fresh presentation from a topic, you need a different kind of tool.
- Why are the slides images instead of editable text?
- A recording contains pixels, and the original text only ever lived on the presenter's machine. The export keeps what the video has: one image per page. Rebuilding text from pixels means guessing, and a wrong guess in a lecture deck is worse than the picture.
- Can it read the slides from a YouTube link?
- Paste-a-link is not supported. Two routes exist: the extension reads the pages from the open youtube.com tab while the video plays, or you process a file you already have the right to use.
- How long does a long recording take?
- Extraction runs on your machine, in this tab. The free tier covers the first 30 minutes of every video; a longer recording costs the tab's attention, not an upload.
- Does the video get uploaded?
- No. Decoding and detection happen in the browser. Something is only sent if you start Spoken notes, which uploads the audio and, when the job has pages, the page images.
- What if pages are missing?
- Fast animations and quick cuts are the usual cause. Step through the detected pages, merge the ones that were split, and delete the transition frames. A page that never stayed on screen long enough cannot be invented by any extractor.