What is Pandoc?
It is a free and open-source document converter, widely used as a writing tool and as a basis for publishing workflows. It converts files from one markup format into another. It can convert documents in (several dialects of) Markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki markup, TWiki and many more.
Pandoc is a tool in the File Conversion category of a tech stack.
Pandoc is an open source tool with 34.6K GitHub stars and 3.4K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Pandoc's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Pandoc?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use Pandoc in their tech stacks, including FIDATA, Plow Technologies, and MALI Labs.
Developers
114 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Pandoc.
Pros of Pandoc
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Pandoc's Features
- Command-line tool
- Supports OS X, Windows, Linux, Universal Document Converter
Pandoc Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Pandoc?
Sphinx
It lets you either batch index and search data stored in an SQL database, NoSQL storage, or just files quickly and easily — or index and search data on the fly, working with it pretty much as with a database server.
wkhtmltopdf
wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the QT Webkit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service.
Markdown
Markdown is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML.
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Asciidoctor
It is a fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook, PDF, and other formats. Asciidoctor is written in Ruby and runs on all major operating systems
