How to Add PDF Files as Images in Google Slide using PDF.co and Zapier

Step 1: Create a Zap

• On your Zapier dashboard, click Create Zap

Step 2: Select a Trigger App

• For this tutorial, we will use Google Drive as our Trigger App

Step 3: Select a Trigger Event

• For the trigger event, we will set it to New File in Folder. This way, every time a new file is added to your Google Drive folder, it will trigger this zap.

Step 4: Set up Trigger

• Select the Drive and Folder that you’re going to use.

Step 5: Test Trigger

Step 6: Select an Action App

• Search and select PDF.co as your Action App.

Step 7: Select an Action Event

• We will use PDF to Anything Converter as the action event. This API can be used to convert a PDF into different kinds of documents/images.

Step 8: Setup Action

• In the Output Format, select JPG Image(s).
• In the PDF URL, insert the Web Content Link from the Google Drive trigger.
• You may set the Name of your output images

Step 9: Test Action

Step 10: Result

• Here are the output images.

Now to add these images on Google Slides, we need to add another action.

Step 11: Add another Action App

• Search and select Google Slides as the Action App

Step 12: Select an Action Event

• Select Create Presentation From Template as the Action Event

Step 13: Set up Action

• In the Title of New Presentation field, put your desired title for the new presentation that will be created
• In the Is Shared field, select True if you want the presentation to be in public and False if you want it to be in private
• In the Template Presentation field, select the slide with the placeholders. For example: {{Image1}}
• Add the URL of the output images in the Placeholder field

Step 14: Test Action

Step 15: Result Slide

• Here’s the slide with the images