Pandoc

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Citations

Pandoc can format citations and generate bibliographies using hundreds of CSL styles.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Conversion fidelity

Conversions from formats more expressive than Pandoc’s Markdown may be lossy, and complex tables may not fit its document model.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Custom processing

Users can customize output with templates and write filters or custom readers and writers in Lua.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Document structure

Pandoc uses readers to parse documents into an abstract syntax tree and writers to convert that representation to a target format.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Format support

Supported formats include Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, Word DOCX, EPUB, Jupyter notebooks, and many others.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Installation options

The maker provides installers or binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and documents package-manager and source installation options.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Limitation

The maker-provided statically linked binaries cannot use Lua filters that rely on Lua modules written in C.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

PDF output

Pandoc creates PDFs using LaTeX by default and supports specifying other PDF engines.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Purpose

Pandoc is a command-line tool and Haskell library for converting documents between markup and word-processing formats.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Security

The official Linux executable is statically linked and has no dynamic dependencies or dependencies on external data files.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Support and onboarding

The site provides a getting-started guide for people unfamiliar with command-line tools and a User’s Guide for detailed use.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

User interface

Pandoc is a command-line tool and has no graphical user interface.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

Workflow integrations

Pandoc can run through GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD, and official Docker images are available.pandoc.org · read 30 Sep 2026

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