How to turn a PDF into a carousel
- Drop your PDF. Or choose it, or switch to Text and paste an article or a post. The PDF is read in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
- Get your slides. The title becomes the cover, each section becomes a slide with its gist, and an ending invites people to save and follow. Choose how many slides you want, or leave it on Auto.
- Edit them. Click a slide to change its title, text or list items, turn a point into a list or a number, or leave a slide out.
- See it as a post. Your carousel in a LinkedIn or Instagram post, in any of the app’s designs, light or dark.
- Finish in the editor. “Open in the editor” takes your slides to aiCarousels: pick a design, add pictures and your name, and download.
How your PDF becomes slides
| In your PDF | On your carousel |
|---|---|
| The title (the biggest text on the first page) | The cover, with the line under it |
| A heading and its paragraphs | A numbered point: the heading and its first sentences |
| A bulleted list | A checklist (up to 5 items) |
| A numbered list | Steps |
| A sentence with a strong number (42%, 3×, $2M) | A big-number slide |
| Running headers, page numbers, the table of contents, references | Left out |
It works by rules, not AI: it reads the size, weight and position of the text, so it’s instant and private. When a PDF has hardly any headings, each paragraph becomes a point, with its first sentence as the title.
PDFs that make good carousels
- Reports and white papers: the key findings, one per slide.
- Blog posts and articles saved as PDF: the subheadings make the slides.
- Ebooks and guides: pick the chapters that stand alone, or choose 10 or 12 slides.
- Slide decks exported to PDF: each slide’s title and bullets carry over.
- Not scans. A scanned PDF is a picture of text, with nothing to read. Copy the text and paste it into Text instead.
Posting it on LinkedIn and Instagram
On LinkedIn, a carousel is a PDF document post: portrait 4:5 (1080 × 1350) reads best on phones. On Instagram it’s up to 20 images, 4:5 or the new 3:4. Keep each slide to one idea and a few lines: if a slide has a lot of text, the checks tell you which one.
Free, and what the app adds
PDF to carousel is free, with no account. aiCarousels opens your slides in its editor, where you choose from 304 layouts, add pictures and your name, rewrite any slide with AI, and download the PDF for LinkedIn or the images for Instagram.
