---
title: "Pandoc"
category: "Office, notes and writing"
tagline: "Converts documents between formats: Markdown, Word, HTML, PDF, EPUB and dozens more."
source: "pacman"
package: "pandoc-cli"
command: "pandoc"
website: "https://pandoc.org/"
code: "https://github.com/jgm/pandoc"
---

## What it is

Pandoc is a command-line tool that converts documents from one markup format to another. It reads and writes Markdown, HTML, Word (.docx), OpenDocument, LaTeX, EPUB, reStructuredText and many more. With a LaTeX engine installed it also produces PDFs.

```
pandoc notes.md -o notes.docx
```

## Why it's here

- **Write once, publish anywhere.** Draft in Markdown and hand people a Word file, a web page or a PDF.
- **PDFs too.** For `pandoc notes.md -o notes.pdf`, install a LaTeX engine first: `sudo pacman -S texlive-latexextra texlive-fontsrecommended`. CoreDesktop leaves TeX Live out, as it takes a few gigabytes.

## On CoreDesktop

CoreDesktop installs Pandoc from pacman; on Arch the `pandoc` command comes from the `pandoc-cli` package. Run `pandoc` in a terminal. `update` keeps it current with the rest of the pacman packages.