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 app in the news & books category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Pandoc for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Web-based, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best Pandoc alternative is mdBook, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pandoc are Asciidoctor, MultiMarkdown, TinyMCE and Morphosis.

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  2. Asciidoctor icon

    Asciidoctor

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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
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  4. MultiMarkdown icon

    MultiMarkdown

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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
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  5. TinyMCE icon

    TinyMCE

     50 likes

    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.

    36 TinyMCE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
    • Joomla
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  6. Morphosis icon

    Morphosis

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    Morphosis is a document conversion app written in Python, using GTK4 and Libadwaita.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Linux Mobile
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    LyXConverter for Microsoft Word

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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
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  9. txt2tags icon

    txt2tags

     7 likes

    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
    • BR flagBrazil
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  10. Booktype icon

    Booktype

     10 likes

    Booktype helps you turn intellectual property into beautiful, professional books.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU
    Booktype screenshot 1
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  11. Textile icon

    Textile

     12 likes

    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

     7 likes

    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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    MarkItDown

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

    25 MarkItDown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

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

    Texy!

     4 likes

    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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