jgm/pandoc

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46031 stars · 3951 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Pandoc is a universal markup converter written in Haskell, available as both a library and a command-line tool. It converts documents between dozens of formats including Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, docx, EPUB, PDF, and slide show formats, with extensible Lua filters.

Use cases

• convert markdown to pdf
• convert docx to markdown
• generate epub from markdown
• turn markdown into a powerpoint or reveal.js slide deck
• convert latex to html
• batch-convert a directory of text files to rtf
• extract plain text from html or word documents
• write documentation in markdown and publish as pdf or html

When to choose

• you need to convert documents between many markup formats with one tool
• you want scriptable, reproducible document pipelines from the command line
• you need PDF generation from markdown via LaTeX or other engines
• you want to extend conversion behavior with Lua filters or a JSON AST

When to avoid

• you need a graphical interface for document conversion
• you need pixel-perfect WYSIWYG layout editing rather than markup conversion
• you need a lightweight single-format converter and don't want a large Haskell binary

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

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