Life & fun · February 15, 2016
Pandoc
A universal document converter
Pandoc launched on February 15, 2016 with 9 votes, #2,113 of 4,408 launches that month.
Does a similar job
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Rudoc – a 4.5MB Rust document converterJul 2026 · github.com · ▲17I built Rudoc because I wanted a smaller tool for simple file convertion workflow. (Pandoc was so heavy for me) I once wanted to try Pandoc, but after I downloaded it from GitHub, I found that it is around 70 MB. It also needed a lot of dependencies. Rudoc is not a substitue of Pandoc, it supports limited set of formats (only txt, md, html, typ, docx, pdf, pptx, xml, json) and doesn't support advanced formatting. The most common workflow is just turn a markdown file to a html. PDF generation can work without Typst, but PDF input conversion requires Typst as a backend. It has no other runtime…
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