Pandoc showed how useful a universal document converter can be. zenfmt is a small attempt to explore that idea with an engine written in Zig.

We built to make document conversion effortless, it converts 19 document formats into Markdown in milliseconds.

Comparison tool / zenfmt Shared files Speed CPU use Peak memory Docling parser only / zenfmt 5 190.4× 205.5× 47.5× AnyDoc / zenfmt 14 6.9× 7.9× 10.1× Pandoc / zenfmt 6 18.2× 16.5× 16.6×