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# From Text or a File

Turn existing content — a report, article, meeting notes, or an old deck — into a presentation.

## From text

Paste your content into the text field. How much you can paste depends on your plan:

| Plan       | Maximum length |
| ---------- | -------------- |
| Free       | 3,000 words    |
| Starter    | 7,000 words    |
| Pro / Team | 292,000 words  |

## From a file

**Supported formats:** `.pdf`, `.docx`, `.pptx`, `.txt`, `.xlsx`, `.xls`, `.html` **Maximum size:** 300 MB, one file per generation.

### Two ways to use a file

When you upload a **PowerPoint file or a landscape PDF** (typically an exported deck), Twistly asks what you want:

* **Redesign my presentation** — keeps your content, structure, and images and applies a new template. Slides map closely one-to-one to the original, and the result is inserted directly (no review step).
* **Create new from this file** — the AI restructures and rewrites the content into a fresh presentation, which you review before inserting.

For other documents (Word, portrait PDFs, text), Twistly extracts the essentials and condenses them into slides — it won't reproduce the document page by page.

## Good to know

* **Output language follows your source.** There's no language picker in this flow — a German document produces German slides. To change the language, translate the result afterwards with [Edit Text with AI](/edit-and-improve-slides/edit-text-with-ai.md).
* **Images from your document are reused** where they fit. For PDFs longer than 50 pages, image extraction is less reliable — expect more stock/AI images in the result.
* **Don't leave the review step open too long.** Images extracted from your file are held temporarily; if you wait more than \~15 minutes before continuing, slides may fall back to stock or AI images instead.
* **Tables survive.** Tables in your source arrive as real, editable PowerPoint tables.

## Cost

Free plan: 20 credits (one of your 3 free presentations). Paid plans: unlimited.