Use AI to Create Lecture Slides From a PDF
Can AI make lecture slides?
Why yes -- it can! A prominent use case that has emerged since we released support for PDF summarization to PowerPoint slides is where high school teachers and university professors upload PDFs and Word documents to then have PPTX.ai generate lecture slides in minutes.
Here's an example of a 547 page book titled "Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution MIT course 6.047/6.878" which is available through MIT's OpenCourseWare. You could certainly upload the complete document and generate slides from a summarization of the entire book, but that would not be cost efficient nor would it provide the detail that you would likely need.
The more cost-effective approach --- and to generate detailed slides --- would be to upload one or more chapters of the book instead. The result will be less expensive since there's less text to summarize and the results will be very tailored to the uploaded portions.
Even better is that you can ask specific questions of the AI to steer the summary or you can just request that the portions be summarized without asking specific questions.
I took that 547 page book, exported just the 9 pages for "1.4 Crash Course in Molecular Biology" and then I asked the AI these questions:
"What is The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology? What is Transcription? What is mRNA generation?"
Those questions to the AI result in very specific answers in the form of a summarization that is then used to generate the slides.
The result? This presentation: "The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology"
Why yes -- it can! A prominent use case that has emerged since we released support for PDF summarization to PowerPoint slides is where high school teachers and university professors upload PDFs and Word documents to then have PPTX.ai generate lecture slides in minutes.
Here's an example of a 547 page book titled "Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution MIT course 6.047/6.878" which is available through MIT's OpenCourseWare. You could certainly upload the complete document and generate slides from a summarization of the entire book, but that would not be cost efficient nor would it provide the detail that you would likely need.
The more cost-effective approach --- and to generate detailed slides --- would be to upload one or more chapters of the book instead. The result will be less expensive since there's less text to summarize and the results will be very tailored to the uploaded portions.
Even better is that you can ask specific questions of the AI to steer the summary or you can just request that the portions be summarized without asking specific questions.
I took that 547 page book, exported just the 9 pages for "1.4 Crash Course in Molecular Biology" and then I asked the AI these questions:
"What is The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology? What is Transcription? What is mRNA generation?"
Those questions to the AI result in very specific answers in the form of a summarization that is then used to generate the slides.
The result? This presentation: "The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology"
It took PPTX.ai six minutes to generate these slides from start to finish. Stop wasting time generating lecture slides and let PPTX.ai give you time back.