Pygments Alternatives

Apps similar to Pygments include Pandoc, which is free and open source. Other options are Unmarkdown, Rich-CLI, prism.js and highlight.js. You can choose from more than 10 Markup Converters like Pygments for self-hosting, Linux, the web, Mac and Windows.

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  1. Pandoc icon
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    Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

    28 Pandoc alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. Unmarkdown icon
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    Publish markdown beautifully to Google Docs, Word, Slack, and more. Paste AI-generated markdown, style with 62 templates, and copy perfectly formatted output to any destination.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Rich-CLI is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal, built with Rich.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Python
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  4. prism.js icon
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    Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.

    13 prism.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. highlight.js icon
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    Highlight.js is a client-side Syntax Highlighting library in Javascript.It can be used in Pastebin Services or in Code Examples.Because of running on client side,it needs less bandwidth than server-side Syntax Highlighting libraries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Lolight icon
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    Lolight is a 3kB tokenizer and syntax highlighter. No language specific syntax support, just a CSS stylable breakdown into tokens. Default styles included.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  8. An independent web app that converts PDFs, Office files, images, and public webpages into structured Markdown for AI workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. A lightweight syntax highlighter written in JavaScript.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
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  10. The MarkItDown library is a utility tool for converting various files to Markdown (e.g., for indexing, text analysis, etc.).

    26 MarkItDown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
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  11. Rouge icon
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    Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text. Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for Pygments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Ruby
    • Self-Hosted
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  12. Re-Highlight is a powerful syntax highlighter, which is a sub-module of the Reqable project. Re-Highlight can highlight a text by simply defining a syntax file. And Re-Highlight has built-in syntax highlighting rules for dozens of programming languages, it is easy to make your...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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