How to convert a PDF to SCORM, and when a converter is not enough

We make Reigniter, one of the options below, so we are not neutral. Everything here about another company's product comes from that company's own page, listed at the end and read on 9 November 2026. We did not run the same PDF through every tool.

What the conversion actually gives you

"PDF to SCORM" describes three different results.

Before you compare tools, decide what you need to show at the end. If an auditor only needs evidence that staff opened the policy, a wrapped document may be enough. If you need evidence that they understood it, a wrapped PDF cannot give you that, because nothing in it asks a question.

Route 1: a free converter

Teachfloor's free tool takes a PDF of up to 25MB with no account. You enter your name and email, and the SCORM package is sent to you. Its page lists SCORM 1.2 and 2004, and does not describe adding questions to the document.

This route suits reference material, such as a handbook people need to be able to find in the LMS. isEazy, which sells an authoring tool, makes the same point in its own guide. That is a vendor's view, but the logic holds. A converter moves the document. It does not teach it.

Route 2: an authoring tool

An authoring tool is the traditional route: bring the PDF in, then build around it.

iSpring Suite is software you install on your computer. Its guide opens a PDF from the Books tab and publishes it as a SCORM "e-book" with a page-flip effect. It publishes to SCORM 1.2 and 2004, AICC, xAPI and cmi5, and the same product can build quizzes, interactions and role-play simulations. iSpring lists it at £776 per author per year, with a 14-day free trial.

isEazy Author takes a PDF and uses a feature called AI Autopilot to divide it into blocks and choose activities for each one. You then edit the result and export SCORM 1.2 or 2004. isEazy says the process can take under 10 minutes. We have not tested that.

These tools give you close control over the course. The trade-off is that someone on your team has to learn the tool and build each course in it.

Route 3: rebuild it as a presented module

The third route treats the PDF as raw material for a short presented course. This is how Reigniter works.

1. Import the document. One PDF, PowerPoint or Word file, or up to 100 at once. Each becomes its own module, laid out into sections, presenter lines and questions. You can have it improved with AI or keep it as it is, and nothing is charged until you generate.
2. Edit it in the training studio. Place questions on the slide, send wrong answers to a recap, then add timers and a pass mark.
3. Export and upload. Export a SCORM 1.2 package and upload it to the LMS you already run, where completions and scores are marked. If you run a learning record store, xAPI statements can go there too.

What the LMS receives depends on the module. With checkpoints, it plays the interactive player and reports each answer, the final score, and pass or fail against your pass mark. Without checkpoints, it plays the video and records completion when the learner reaches the end.

SCORM export needs the Interactive Training plan at $149 a month, or Agency at $199. You can test the approach first: the free plan includes one module of up to 5 steps with questions and branching, voiced over your slides and shared by link.

SCORM 1.2 or 2004?

Check what your LMS accepts before you build anything. iSpring's summary is fair: "Both versions track learner results, but SCORM 2004 includes advanced features like navigation and sequencing." For a straightforward policy or compliance module, 1.2 usually reports what you need.

Reigniter exports SCORM 1.2 only. Our product page says so directly: "We do not offer a 2004 export."

Get the PDF ready first

Whichever route you choose, a little preparation saves editing later.

• Cut what does not teach. Contents pages, version tables and appendices nobody will be tested on can go.
• Write one objective per module. "By the end, the learner can report a near miss" can be tested. "Understand health and safety" cannot.
• Split long documents. A 60-page manual is several short modules, not one long one.
• Check the PDF has real text. A scanned image of a document gives any tool less to work with than selectable text.
• Test one package before you roll it out. Upload it, complete it as a learner, and confirm the completion and score appear in your LMS reports.

Who Reigniter does not suit

• Teams who want the training made for them. "Reigniter is the platform: your team builds, edits and publishes its own modules, and owns them."
• An LMS that requires SCORM 2004. We export SCORM 1.2 only.
• Anyone who needs SCORM on the free plan. Free training modules are shared by link only.
• Teams who want one very long module. A module can have up to 150 steps, and longer documents are split into parts.
• Organisations that want a hosted learning record store. xAPI statements go to your own LRS. We do not host one.
• Anyone who only needs a document in the LMS. SCORM export starts at $149 a month, so a free converter may be all you need.

Which route should you choose?

If the PDF is reference material, use a free converter. If you have an instructional designer and want close control of every screen, use an authoring tool. If a small team needs people to answer questions and pass, and would rather not build each screen by hand, try one five-step module on the free plan, then decide.

For the deck version of this job, see PowerPoint to training video. For how the standards differ, see SCORM vs xAPI for small teams.

Sources

Read on 9 November 2026.

Other companies

• iSpring, how to convert PDF to SCORM
• iSpring, PowerPoint to SCORM (version summary)
• iSpring Suite pricing
• isEazy, create SCORM from PDF
• Teachfloor, free PDF to SCORM converter

Start free and try it on one real document.