Turn your long PDFs into watchable videos.
Drop a sales deck, product one-pager, whitepaper, or training PDF. ngram reads the document, drafts the script, builds the storyboard, and renders a branded video with voiceover and captions.
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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 storyboard, 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 16:9 for YouTube, 1:1 for LinkedIn feed, 9:16 for vertical. MP4, GIF, or WebM. 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 from one render
The storyboard reframes per aspect ratio. Keep the same script, ship a website hero, a LinkedIn square, and a TikTok vertical from a single PDF upload.
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
Uploaded PDFs are stored encrypted, processed in-region, and never used to train models. Brand-kit and content guardrails enforce approved/blocked phrasing per workspace.
The rest of ngram
The product behind the converter.
Script Generation
Turns the body of your PDF — deck copy, whitepaper body, 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, 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, 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.
PowerPoint and Keynote decks read scene-by-scene with speaker notes used for narration. Closest sibling to PDF — same deck content, different file format.
Open converterGoogle Docs and Word documents converted with the same outline-aware extraction ngram uses for PDFs. Useful when the source still lives in editable form.
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
Licensed library music auto-ducked under the 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 — 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 webhooks if you'd rather build it yourself.
whenA new PDF lands in a Google Drive folder
thenConvert it to a branded video and post the share link in #marketing
whenClaude or ChatGPT is handed a PDF in a workflow
thenCall the pdf-to-video tool and return a hosted video URL
whenAn internal pipeline drops a release-notes PDF on S3
thenConvert it to a branded video without the file leaving your VPC
whenA HubSpot deal moves to 'Proposal sent' with an attached PDF
thenRender a personalized video from that PDF and email it back
whenYou're viewing a PDF in the browser
thenHit 'Convert to video' and get an MP4 back in a new tab
whenA PDF-to-video render finishes
thenPublish the 9:16 cut natively to LinkedIn with branded captions
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 ships in three aspect ratios.
| 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 |
| Multi-format export | 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 from one render | Single ratio per project | MP4 only | Per-project ratio |
| Multilingual voiceover | Many languages via ElevenLabs | Broad language list | Multiple languages | Limited |
| API + webhook | REST, MCP, n8n, Zapier | API on enterprise plans | — | — |
| Files auto-deleted | Encrypted, in-region, never used for training | Workspace retention | Account-bound | Workspace retention |
FAQ
Common questions about PDF to video
Still curious?
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. About five minutes end-to-end.