It is tempting to assume the quickest, most direct conversion is the best one. Often it is the opposite. Turning a slide deck straight into plain text throws almost everything away; taking a little more care to preserve the layout keeps the thing you actually wanted. How direct the conversion is tells you nothing useful. What survives the trip is the whole story.
What we grade, and why
So we do not hand you a technical progress readout and leave you to guess what it means. We show you a fidelity grade — how much of the original is going to make it — before you convert. That grade is a property of the result, not of how much work it took to get there, which is why a conversion that looks more involved can still be graded higher than a quick one.
- Exact: what went in comes out, untouched.
- Picture-perfect: it looks identical, faithful pixel for pixel, even if the result is no longer editable.
- Very good and Good enough: the layout largely survives, with the occasional font substitution or shifted margin.
- Words only: the text survives and the formatting does not — honest, and sometimes exactly what you wanted.
The point of telling you first
When someone turns an SVG drawing into a Word document and gets back a picture of the drawing rather than an editable shape, that is not a failure — it is the only honest answer, because a finished drawing cannot be reverse-engineered back into editable instructions. The only question is whether you find that out before or after. We would rather say it up front, on the tool page, than take the conversion and let you discover it.
Nobody has ever been upset by knowing what to expect from their own file.
That is the whole idea: tell you the cost before you pay it. So far it is holding.