Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, man-pages, open-document or XML. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
MarkItDown Alternatives
MarkItDown is described as 'The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.)' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to MarkItDown for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best MarkItDown alternative is Pandoc, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like MarkItDown are mdBook, MultiMarkdown, Textile and txt2tags.
Alternatives list
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online

Generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux


Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac

Texy! is a lightweight markup language as well as converter of this format to XHTML, in a form of a library written in the PHP scripting language. It allows the user to write structured documents without knowledge or using of HTML language.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
LyXConverter creates a LyX document based on a Word document. It does this directly, in Word, without first exporting to LaTeX or going through other gyrations.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
LyXConverter for Microsoft Word is the most popular commercial alternative to MarkItDown.
- LyXConverter for Microsoft Word is Paid and Proprietary
gnu source-highlight is a command line program that can be used to highlight source code, it supports output to many formats including html, ODF, ANSI and groff.









