About pastedeck

pastedeck is built and maintained by an individual developer, Tang Yang, operating under the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is a small independent project rather than a company product: there is no team behind it, no staff and no office. Support email is answered by the same person who writes the code, which is part of why the service stays deliberately small.

pastedeck organises what is already in your document — its headings, paragraphs, lists and tables — into slides you can talk over. You can give it a Markdown or Word file, a PDF, a block of pasted text, or the address of a page; it returns a plain HTML deck built on reveal.js, and you present it in the browser from a link, with nothing to install. Files are read in your browser, so the file itself is never uploaded — only the text is sent on to be turned into slides. Each slide also carries a short speaker note summarising the point it makes.

There is an upper bound on what one deck can draw from: 50,000 characters of text, 100 pages for a PDF, and 10 MB per file. Material longer than that is better split into two decks, and we say so on the page rather than quietly truncating it.

It is a content tool, not a design tool. The work it does is structural: your material, arranged into one idea per slide, in a form you can stand up and present. It fits the occasions where the content already exists and the job is to present it — an internal update, a project or proposal walkthrough, a class or workshop, a paper or research review, or a talk you wrote up as notes first. It is a poor fit for anything that depends on bespoke visual design.

• It does not export .pptx or PDF. A PDF can be a source, but it is never the output: the deck is HTML, presented in the browser, and there is no file that opens in PowerPoint.
• It does not give you pixel-level control over the layout. You choose a visual style, and the arrangement of the pages comes from the model — there is no drag-and-drop editor.
• It does not generate images, charts or video.
• It does not require an account. There is no sign-up, no login, and no email address needed to generate a free deck.

Some things are planned, and they are plans rather than commitments: support for longer documents, more interface languages, and content pages covering use cases and comparisons. No dates are attached to any of them, and nothing on this page should be read as a delivery promise. What is offered today is what the rest of this site describes.

A few rules the project holds to:

• We do not write promises we cannot keep. Retention and refund terms are stated as they actually are, not as they would look on a marketing page. If a mechanism does not exist yet, the text does not claim that it does.
• The free tier has to stand on its own. Generation is cheap enough per deck that free short decks can be offered without a subscription or a balance of prepaid credits funding them.
• Privacy is minimised. You can generate without an account, we do not log IP addresses at the application layer, and the site sets a single strictly necessary cookie. Your document is not used to build an advertising or tracking profile.