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Pandoc, published by John MacFarlane, is a command-line document converter that functions as a universal translator between markup formats, currently distributed in version 3.9 after 61 successive releases that have progressively expanded its format support since the project’s inception. Written in Haskell, the engine reads an input written in any of more than forty source formats—including Markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, MediaWiki, Org-mode, DocBook, and Microsoft Word DOCX—and writes it out to any of over fifty target formats, such as PDF, EPUB, ODT, PowerPoint, Jupyter Notebook, or plain HTML, making it indispensable for academic publishing, static-site generation, e-book production, and reproducible research workflows. Researchers rely on it to turn Markdown manuscripts into camera-ready PDFs via LaTeX templates, web developers pipe content through it to produce static HTML or reveal.js slides, data journalists automate multi-format reports from a single source, and publishers batch-convert legacy Word archives to clean XML for long-term preservation. Extensive command-line options allow citation rendering with CSL styles, cross-reference generation, syntax highlighting for hundreds of programming languages, custom template application, and Lua-filter scripting for arbitrary AST manipulation, while tight integration with LaTeX, ConTeXt, XeLaTeX, LuaTeX, and Groff gives fine-grained typographic control when PDF is the target. The tool operates identically on Windows, macOS, and Linux, is MIT-licensed, and is available for free on wget.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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