6 alternatives to pandoc

jgm/pandoc — Universal markup converter (46,703 stars, GPL-2.0, files, dev-tools, infra).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It does not serve code from jgm/pandoc itself (licence class: strong-copyleft), so these alternatives are the licence-cleared route.

The alternatives in detail

• hukkin/mdformat
  CommonMark compliant Markdown formatter
  score 7.1/10 · MIT permissive · 829 stars · 12 components · search them
• markdown-it/markdown-it
  Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 22,031 stars · 63 components · search them
• mixmark-io/turndown
  🛏 An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript
  score 1.0/10 · MIT permissive · 11,480 stars · 8 components · search them
• slidevjs/slidev
  Presentation Slides for Developers
  score 5.7/10 · MIT permissive · 49,230 stars · 273 components · search them · alternatives
• showdownjs/showdown
  A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 14,878 stars · 88 components · search them
• drasimwagan/mdv
  MDV — a Markdown superset for documents, dashboards, and slides with embedded data and visualizations. HTML + PDF export, live preview, VS Code extension.
  score 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 514 stars · 23 components · search them

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