Pandoc Alternatives

Pandoc is described as 'Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library' and is a popular markup converter in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pandoc for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Pandoc alternative is Asciidoctor, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pandoc are MultiMarkdown, mdBook, TinyMCE and Morphosis.

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  1. Asciidoctor icon
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    Asciidoctor is a fast text processor and publishing toolchain for converting AsciiDoc content to HTML5, DocBook 5 (or 4.5) and other formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Asciidoctor is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Pandoc.

    • Asciidoctor is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pandoc.

    • Asciidoctor is Free and Open SourcePandoc is also Free and Open Source
  2. MultiMarkdown icon
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    MultiMarkdown, or MMD, is a tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (by way of LaTeX), OPML, or OpenDocument (specifically, Flat OpenDocument or ‘.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. TinyMCE icon
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    TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode Systems AB. It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.

    32 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla
     
  4. Morphosis icon
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    Morphosis is a document conversion app written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  5. txt2tags icon
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    It reads a text file with minimal markup such as bold and //italic// and converts it to the following formats (among others):

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
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    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 Pandoc.

    • LyXConverter for Microsoft Word is Paid and ProprietaryPandoc is Free and Open Source
  7. Booktype icon
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    Booktype helps you turn intellectual property into beautiful, professional books.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  8. Textile icon
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    Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen and billed as a "humane web text generator". Textile converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
     
  11. Texy! icon
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    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
     
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