PDF to Video for documents that should drive more than a download
Bring the approved PDF and choose the story your audience actually needs from it. Turn that source into a branded video, then create shorter sales, campaign, or training cuts from the same project.
Video generation uses credits. Review your estimate in ngram. MP4 downloads require Basic or higher.
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How it works
Four steps from a 12-page PDF to a 45-second video.
No script writing, no scene planning, no recording booth. Upload the document, accept the plan containing the script, render the MP4.
Drop the PDF in
Native-text and scanned PDFs both work. We OCR the scans, parse the layout, and pull headings, body copy, callouts, charts and images out of every page.
We write the script
The agent groups your PDF into scenes, picks the hook, condenses the body, and writes a CTA. Speaker notes and section headings drive the pacing.
Tune the storyboard
Every scene is visible before render. Swap visuals, shorten copy, change the tone, switch the voiceover, or ask in chat for a CFO version vs. a PMM version.
Render and ship
Export one reviewed MP4 at a selected aspect ratio for YouTube, 1:1 for LinkedIn feed, 9:16 for vertical. Prepare other ratios as separate edits; use Video Converter or Video to GIF for other formats. Hosted page at /watch/, embed code, or direct download.
Output controls
What you control between PDF and final cut.
Page-aware extraction
Headings become scene titles, body copy becomes voiceover, callouts become on-screen text. Charts and product screenshots from the PDF can be kept as scene visuals or replaced with branded motion graphics.
Script you can edit in plain English
Generated script appears scene-by-scene before any rendering happens. Trim a sentence, ask for a shorter hook, or paste a custom CTA. Changes ripple through pacing and captions.
Brand kit applied per scene
Logo, colors, fonts, intros and outros from your brand kit are stamped on every scene. Every PDF-derived video comes out looking like your team made it, not a generic template.
Voiceover from a library or your clone
Pick an ElevenLabs or MiniMax voice, or use a cloned voice from /app/settings/voice. Voiceover regenerates from the script automatically when you edit the words.
Burned-in captions, brand-styled
Captions are generated from the script (not after-the-fact transcription) so they're exact. Font and position match the brand kit. Toggle off for silent feeds, leave on for LinkedIn.
16:9, 1:1, and 9:16 as separate reviewed edits
Keep the same script for a website-hero, LinkedIn-square, or vertical-social edit. Prepare and review each aspect-ratio edit separately before exporting one MP4.
Multilingual variants
Translate the script and re-render the voiceover in dozens of languages via ElevenLabs. Useful for localizing whitepapers, training PDFs or release notes for global teams.
Source files contained
Brand-kit and content guardrails enforce approved and blocked phrasing per workspace. Talk to sales about security, access controls, and data handling for your team.
The rest of ngram
The product behind the converter.
Script Generation
Turns the body of your PDF, like deck copy, whitepaper body, or policy text, into a video script with a hook, scene-by-scene narration, and a CTA tied to the document's intent.
Learn moreAI Voiceover
Reads the script generated from your PDF in a brand-appropriate voice. Swap voices, clone your founder's voice, or generate the same PDF narration in a second language.
Learn moreAI Visuals
Fills the gap between PDF text and a watchable scene. Generates branded backgrounds, illustrations and B-roll so a 12-page document doesn't become 12 slides of bullet points.
Learn moreMotion Graphics
Animates headings, stats and pull-quotes lifted from the PDF. Charts and tables in the document become animated lower-thirds and callouts instead of static screenshots.
Learn moreCaptions
Burned-in captions generated from the same script the voiceover reads. Critical for PDF-to-video output that lives on LinkedIn or in muted email previews.
Learn moreBrand Kit
Applies your logo, colors, fonts and intro/outro to every video built from a PDF. Sales decks, training PDFs and whitepapers all render in a single brand voice.
Learn moreUse cases
What teams ship after they convert the PDF.
Turn a launch PDF into the launch video
The launch brief, positioning doc and one-pager already exist as PDFs. ngram pulls them into a launch video with hook, demo beats, and CTA, ready for LinkedIn, the website, and the newsletter.
See use casePitch decks that prospects actually watch
Convert the PDF version of the sales pitch into a branded video leave-behind. Send after a discovery call, embed in an email, or attach to a proposal, instead of asking the buyer to open another deck.
See use caseRelease notes PDFs into changelog video
Drop the release notes PDF in and get a 30–60 second feature announcement video, branded and captioned, ready to attach to the changelog post or the in-app what's-new card.
See use casePolicy PDFs into training videos
A new policy PDF nobody opens becomes a 90-second branded explainer. Per-section scenes follow the document outline, captions and voiceover do the reading for the team.
See use caseOnboarding PDFs into welcome videos
Static onboarding PDFs become a video walkthrough new customers watch in the welcome email. Same content, much higher completion rate than a 14-page attachment.
See use caseWhitepapers as LinkedIn-native videos
Long-form PDFs barely get clicked on LinkedIn. ngram turns the executive summary into a 60-second vertical with captions, branded intro and a CTA back to the original PDF for gated downloads.
See use caseProduct PDFs into evergreen overview video
Your product brief or pitch PDF becomes an evergreen overview video for the website hero, the docs landing page, or the sales handoff, refreshed any time the PDF gets updated.
See use caseBoard decks and investor PDFs into updates
A quarterly investor PDF becomes a 2–3 minute branded update for LPs and the board, with motion-graphic charts pulled directly from the document's data.
See use caseWhitepapers as social-ready explainers
Lead-gen whitepapers and reports stay PDFs for the gated download. The summary becomes an explainer video for top-of-funnel social, blog headers and ad placements.
See use caseOther converters
Got a different source format?
PDF is one of seventeen converters that share the same script, storyboard, voiceover and brand-kit pipeline. Same engine, different inputs.
Turn a PowerPoint file or a PDF export of your slides into a video. Use the plan to review the script and the proposed scenes.
Open converterUse a PDF export or pasted text from Google Docs or Word as the source for your video.
Open converterIf your PDF is really a published product doc, this sibling is tuned for help-center content: longer videos, step-by-step pacing, more screen recording integration.
Open converterTools that pair with this converter
Reshape the PDF before, polish the video after.
Editing the video further
After the PDF has become a draft cut
Video Editor
Open the PDF-derived video on a real timeline. Trim scenes, swap visuals, re-cut for a 15-second teaser or a 3-minute training cut from the same source document.
Open toolAdd Subtitles to Video
Burn in or export.srt captions matching the script your PDF produced. Frame-accurate, multilingual-ready, and styled to the brand kit.
Open toolVideo Cutter
Pull a 10-second teaser out of the full PDF-to-video render by transcript, not timeline. Drop the result on social before the long version goes live.
Open toolAdd Music to Video
The agent picks a licensed library track that matches the tone and pacing of your voiceover. Critical for PDF-derived videos that otherwise feel like quiet narration over slides.
Open toolGenerating from scratch
If the PDF is missing the visual half
AI Video Generator
Sometimes the PDF is text-only, so the AI Video Generator drafts the cinematic scenes the document never had, then drops them into the same storyboard.
Open toolAI Avatar Video Generator
Pair the script lifted from your PDF with a synthetic presenter. Useful when a long whitepaper needs a talking-head explainer instead of pure motion graphics.
Open toolText to Speech Video
Skip the storyboard step. Paste a section of the PDF body, get narration over branded scenes, ideal for short FAQs or one-section policy clips.
Open toolVideo Script Generator
Need to rewrite the PDF as a script before rendering? The script generator gives you the full hook, body, CTA in plain text first.
Open toolPolishing the source
Fix the document before it becomes video
AI Image Generator
Replace generic stock images inside the PDF, or generate the visual assets the document is missing, before the conversion runs. Output goes straight into Image Lab.
Open toolAuto Subtitle Generator
If the PDF is being paired with an existing voiceover or recording, auto-subtitles align everything before the final PDF-driven render.
Open toolAI Voice Generator
Audition voices for your PDF narration before committing to a full render. Same engine the conversion pipeline uses.
Open toolVideo Translator
Translate the final PDF-to-video output into other languages with regenerated voiceover and translated on-screen text. Useful for whitepapers shipped globally.
Open toolBuilt for teams
Whose PDFs end up becoming video?
Sales Enablement
Turn pitch decks, one-pagers and prospect-facing PDFs into branded video leave-behinds that survive after the discovery call.
See workflowsProduct Marketing
Launch briefs, positioning docs and product PDFs become launch videos, social cuts, and website hero clips, from the same source the team already approved.
See workflowsHR & Internal Comms
Convert policy PDFs, onboarding handbooks and benefits docs into short branded training videos employees actually watch.
See workflowsCustomer Success
Onboarding PDFs and QBR decks become videos sent in welcome emails and renewal reviews: same content, far higher open and completion rates.
See workflowsFounders
Investor PDFs, board decks and fundraising one-pagers turn into branded update videos for LPs and the board without standing up a video team.
See workflowsProduct Managers
Spec PDFs, release-note documents and roadmap decks convert into changelog and internal-update videos that ship alongside the written doc.
See workflowsGrowth Marketing
Whitepapers, gated reports and lead-magnet PDFs become top-of-funnel video for paid social and LinkedIn while the PDF stays the conversion asset.
See workflowsSupport Teams
Support handbooks, FAQ PDFs and policy docs convert into short videos embedded in help articles, cutting ticket volume without rewriting the doc.
See workflowsIntegrations
Plug PDF to video into where your documents already live.
Every integration uses a working recipe. Wire the same flow up with the REST API and self-managed webhook subscriptions for video.completed or video.failed if you'd rather build it yourself.
whenAn approved PDF is ready for a Studio upload
thenUpload the file in Studio; use Zapier's documented Create Video or Get Status action for this PDF to Video job, then pass the result to the next step.
whenAn agent has an approved PDF and a video brief
thenUpload the file in Studio; use MCP's documented create and status tools for this PDF to Video job, then return the status or result to the agent.
whenYour workflow has an approved PDF ready for Studio
thenUpload the file in Studio; use n8n's documented Create From Text, Create From URL, or Get Status node for this PDF to Video job, then pass the result onward.
whenYou're viewing a PDF in the browser
thenHit 'Convert to video' and get an MP4 back in a new tab
whenThe video from your PDF document is ready for LinkedIn Social Publishing Beta
thenCompose the LinkedIn post for the approved PDF recap, then publish it now.
How it compares
If you've been using something else to turn PDFs into video.
Synthesia gives you an avatar reading the PDF. NoteGPT gives you a slideshow with TTS. Lumen5 gives you a template-driven editor. ngram reads the document, drafts the script, renders the brand, and supports separate aspect-ratio edits.
| Feature | ngram | Synthesia | NoteGPT | Lumen5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max input PDF size | 50 MB per file | Page-count limit | Up to 80 pages | Page-count limit |
| How the PDF becomes video | Script + storyboard + branded scenes | Avatar narrates extracted text | Each page → slide with TTS | Template-based scenes |
| Storyboard review before render | Full scene-by-scene preview | Slide-level only | Auto-generated slideshow | Template editor |
| Brand kit applied | Logo, colors, fonts, intro/outro | Template-bound | Limited | Template-bound |
| Scanned-PDF support | OCR built in | Text-native only | Native + OCR | Text-native only |
| Channel versions | 16:9, 1:1, and 9:16 as separate reviewed edits | Single ratio per project | MP4 only | Per-project ratio |
| Multilingual voiceover | Many languages via ElevenLabs | Broad language list | Multiple languages | Limited |
| API + webhook | REST API with self-service API keys; webhook subscriptions for video.completed or video.failed; MCP, Zapier, and n8n for documented workflows | API on enterprise plans | None | None |
| Source-file handling | Workspace-scoped; talk to sales for details | Workspace retention | Account-bound | Workspace retention |
Common questions about PDF to video
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PDF → Video
Ready to turn your next PDF into a watchable video?
Upload a deck, one-pager, or whitepaper and see the storyboard before any render runs. Review the plan containing the script, then generate your video.