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Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read markdown and (subsets of) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, RTF, DocBook XML, OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, and S5 HTML slide shows.

Pandoc features:

* Modular design, using separate writers and readers for each supported format.
* A real markdown parser, not based on regex substitutions. More accurate and much faster than Markdown.pl.
* Also parses (subsets of) reStructuredText, LaTeX, and HTML.
* Multiple output formats: HTML, Docbook XML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, reStructuredText, Markdown, RTF, groff man pages, OpenDocument XML, ODT (Open Office document), MediaWiki, GNU Texinfo, S5 slide shows.
* Unicode support.
* Optional “smart” quotes, dashes, and ellipses.
* Automatically generated tables of contents.
* Support for displaying math in HTML.
* Extensions to markdown syntax:
o Document metadata (title, author, date).
o Footnotes, tables, and definition lists.
o Superscripts, subscripts, and strikeout.
o Inline LaTeX math and LaTeX commands.
o Markdown inside HTML blocks.
o Enhanced ordered lists: start number and numbering style are significant.
o Delimited (unindented) code blocks with syntax highlighting.
o Compatibility mode to turn off syntax entensions and emulate Markdown.pl.
* Convenient wrapper scripts:
o markdown2pdf converts directly from markdown to PDF, using pdflatex.
o html2markdown makes it easy to produce a markdown version of any web page.
o hsmarkdown is a drop-in replacement for Markdown.pl.
* Multi-platform: runs on Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Unix.
* Free software, released under the GPL.

To see what pandoc can do, see the demonstration page, or try pandoc on the web.