free for students · no sign-up needed

Your lecture slides,
ready for any AI

Upload your lecture PDFs or PowerPoints and get back clean, readable text. Paste it straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI — and actually get useful answers.

10x
more slides per prompt
fits free tier
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
no login
just upload and go

drop your file here

or browse to upload — PDF or PowerPoint, up to 50MB

PDFPPTXup to 50MBcompletely free

features

Everything you need for AI-powered study

Built by students, for students who want to actually get value out of AI tools.

converts slides to readable text

Turns your PDF or PowerPoint into clean text that AI can actually understand and work with.

PDF + PowerPoint

merge all your lecture files

Combine every week's slides into one document. Search your entire semester in seconds - perfect for online open-book exams.

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see how much you saved

Once converted, you get a summary of how much storage you saved by converting to text/markdown instead of using the slides.

data-driven

works with any AI tool

No lock-in. Copy your text and paste into whichever AI you already use — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, anything.

one-click copy

merge for open-book exams — search your entire semester

PDF
week1_intro.pdf18 slides
PPT
week2_data_structures.pptx24 slides
PDF
week3_algorithms.pdf31 slides
merged + converted
semester_notes_combined.md73 slides · Ctrl+F ready

Ctrl+F your entire semester in one place

binary search tree4 of 12 matches

...week 3 — A binary search tree is a node-based structure where...
...week 5 — inserting into a binary search tree requires comparing...
...week 8 — balanced binary search trees guarantee O(log n) lookup...

environmental impact

Use AI more responsibly —
not less

We get it — AI uses real energy and real water. But the problem isn't using AI, it's using it inefficiently. Uploading a messy PDF means the AI has to work harder, retry more, and consume more resources to get you a useful answer. Slidedown makes every prompt count.

fewer retries
Clean text means the AI understands first time — no wasted follow-up prompts
~70% less
content passed to the AI per session, meaning less processing per study session
fits free tier
No need to run multiple AI subscriptions — one clean prompt does more

A note on honesty:AI energy use is real, but often overstated online. The bigger win is using AI intentionally — fewer, better prompts rather than dozens of frustrated retries. That's what Slidedown helps you do.

why it works

Why can't I just upload my PDF directly?

AI tools have a limit on how much text they can read at once. PDFs are full of hidden junk — layout code, image data, metadata — that eats into that limit fast. Slidedown strips all that away so the AI reads your actual content, not the noise.

30 slides

raw PDF — hits the AI limit fast, often cuts off mid-lecture

30 slides

after slidedown — same content, a fraction of the space used

fits free tier

your whole lecture fits without upgrading your AI plan