Use a PDF Document

Introduction

The following method allows you to create a PowerPoint presentation from a PDF document. This method can also be used to append a PDF document to an existing presentation.

API Information

API	Type	Description	Resource
/slides/{name}/fromPdf	POST	Creates a new presentation from a PDF document.	ImportFromPdf

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Location	Required	Description
name	string	path	true	The file name of the new presentation or existing one.
pdf	file	formData	true	The input data of a PDF document.
options	PdfImportOptions	header	false	PDF import options.
password	string	header	false	The password to open the presentation.
folder	string	query	false	The folder path where the presentation is located.
storage	string	query	false	The storage name where the presentation is located.

Import Options

Represents PDF import options.

Property Name	Type	Description
DetectTables	bool	true to detect tables

cURL Examples

Create a new presentation Data/summary.pptx in a Main storage from a PDF document report.pdf.

Request

curl -X POST "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/fromPdf?folder=Data&storage=Main" \
     -H "accept: application/json" \
     -H "authorization: Bearer <access_token>" \
     -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
     -F "file=@report.pdf"
     -F "options=@options.json;filename="

options.json

{
    detectTables: false
}

Response

{
    "documentProperties": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/documentProperties?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "viewProperties": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/viewProperties?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "slides": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/slides?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "images": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/images?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "layoutSlides": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/layoutSlides?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "masterSlides": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/masterSlides?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "selfUri": {
        "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data",
        "relation": "self"
    },
    "alternateLinks": [
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/odp?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation",
            "title": "Download as Odp"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/fodp?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation",
            "title": "Download as Fodp"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/ppt?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
            "title": "Download as Ppt"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/pdf?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/pdf",
            "title": "Download as Pdf"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/tiff?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "image/tiff",
            "title": "Download as Tiff"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/xps?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument",
            "title": "Download as Xps"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/pps?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
            "title": "Download as Pps"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/ppsx?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.slideshow",
            "title": "Download as Ppsx"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/pptm?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12",
            "title": "Download as Pptm"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/ppsm?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12",
            "title": "Download as Ppsm"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/pot?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint",
            "title": "Download as Pot"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/potx?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.template",
            "title": "Download as Potx"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/potm?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12",
            "title": "Download as Potm"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/otp?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation-template",
            "title": "Download as Otp"
        },
        {
            "href": "https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx/html?folder=Data",
            "relation": "alternate",
            "linkType": "text/html",
            "title": "Download as Html"
        }
    ]
}

SDK Examples

Create a new presentation Data/summary.pptx in a Main storage from a PDF document report.pdf.

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-dotnet

using System;
using System.IO;
using Aspose.Slides.Cloud.Sdk;

class Test
{
    static void Main()
    {
        SlidesApi api = new SlidesApi("MyClientId", "MyClientSecret");

        using (var pdfStream = File.OpenRead("test.pdf"))
        {
            PdfImportOptions options = new PdfImportOptions();
            options.DetectTables = false;
            var response = api.ImportFromPdf("summary.pptx", pdfStream, options);
            Console.WriteLine(response.SelfUri.Href); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx
        }
    }
}

Java

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-java

import com.aspose.slides.api.SlidesApi;
import com.aspose.slides.model.PdfImportOptions;
import com.aspose.slides.ApiException;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException, IOException {
        SlidesApi slidesApi = new SlidesApi("my_client_id", "my_client_key");

        PdfImportOptions options = new PdfImportOptions();
        options.setDetectTables(false);
        byte[] pdfData = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("report.pdf"));
        Document response = slidesApi.importFromPdf("summary.pptx", pdfData, options, null, "Data", "Main");

        System.out.println(response.getSelfUri().getHref()); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data
    }
}

PHP

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-php

use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Api\Configuration;
use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Api\SlidesApi;
use Aspose\Slides\Cloud\Sdk\Model\PdfImportOptions;

$configuration = new Configuration();
$configuration->setAppSid("my_client_id");
$configuration->setAppKey("my_client_key");

$slidesApi = new SlidesApi(null, $configuration);

$pdfSteam = fopen("report.pdf", 'r');
$options = new PdfImportOptions();
$options->setDetectTables(false);
$response = $slidesApi->importFromPdf("summary.pptx", $pdfSteam, $options, null, "Data", "Main");

echo $response->getSelfUri()->getHref(); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data

Ruby

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-ruby

require 'aspose_slides_cloud'

configuration = AsposeSlidesCloud::Configuration.new
configuration.app_sid = "my_client_id"
configuration.app_key = "my_client_key"

slides_api = AsposeSlidesCloud::SlidesApi.new(configuration)

pdf_data = File.binread("report.pdf")
options = AsposeSlidesCloud::PdfImportOptions.new
options.detect_tables = false
response = slides_api.import_from_pdf("summary.pptx", pdf_data, options, nil, "Data", "Main")

print response.self_uri.href # https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data

Python

# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-python

import asposeslidescloud

from asposeslidescloud.apis.slides_api import SlidesApi

slides_api = SlidesApi(None, "my_client_id", "my_client_key")

with open("report.pdf", "rb") as pdf_stream:
    options = PdfImportOptions()
    options.detect_tables = False
    response = slides_api.import_from_pdf("summary.pptx", pdf_stream, options, None, "Data", "Main")

print(response.self_uri.href) # https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data

Node.js

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-nodejs

const cloud = require("asposeslidescloud");
const fs = require("fs");

const slidesApi = new cloud.SlidesApi("my_client_id", "my_client_key");

const pdfStream = fs.createReadStream("test.pdf");

const pdfOptions = new asposelsidescloud.PdfImportOptions();
options.detectTables = false;
slidesApi.importFromPdf("summary.pptx", pdfStream, options, null, "Data", "Main").then(response => {
    console.log(response.body.selfUri.href); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data
});

Android

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-android

import com.aspose.slides.api.SlidesApi;
import com.aspose.slides.ApiException;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ApiException, IOException {
        SlidesApi slidesApi = new SlidesApi("my_client_id", "my_client_key");

        PdfImportOptions options = new PdfImportOptions();
        options.setDetectTables(false);
        byte[] pdfData = Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("report.pdf"));
        Document response = slidesApi.importFromPdf("summary.pptx", pdfData, options, null, "Data", "Main");

        System.out.println(response.getSelfUri().getHref()); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data
    }
}

C++

// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/aspose-Slides-cloud/aspose-Slides-cloud-cpp

#include "asposeslidescloud/api/SlidesApi.h"

using namespace utility::conversions;
using namespace asposeslidescloud::api;

int main()
{
    auto slidesApi = std::make_shared<SlidesApi>(to_string_t("my_client_id"), to_string_t("my_client_key"));

    auto pdfStream = std::make_shared<std::ifstream>("report.pdf", std::ios::binary);

    auto pdfContent = std::make_shared<HttpContent>();
    pdfContent->setData(pdfStream);

    std::shared_ptr<PdfImportOptions> options = std::make_shared<PdfImportOptions>();
    options->setDetectTables(false);
    auto response = slidesApi->importFromPdf(
        to_string_t("summary.pptx"), pdfContent, options, utility::string_t(), to_string_t("Data"), to_string_t("Main")).get();

    std::cout << to_utf8string(response->getSelfUri()->getHref()); // https://api.aspose.cloud/v3.0/slides/summary.pptx?folder=Data

    return 0;
}

Perl

Swift

SDKs

Using an SDK (API client) is the quickest way for a developer to speed up the development. An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project. Check out our GitHub repository for a complete list of Aspose.Slides Cloud SDKs along with working examples, to get you started in no time. Please check Available SDKs article to learn how to add an SDK to your project.

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