unoconv vs pandoc-mode

unoconv

Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice. (by unoconv)

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pandoc-mode

An Emacs minor mode for interacting with Pandoc. (by joostkremers)

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unoconv		pandoc-mode
	Project
3	Mentions	3
2,514	Stars	174
0.6%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	3.6
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Python	Language	Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	-

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unoconv

Posts with mentions or reviews of unoconv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-15.

Converting xls to xlsx
2 projects | /r/golang | 15 Dec 2021
Full Document Writing in Emacs?
2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Apr 2021

I personally view it in google docs, their is the unoconv utility for libreoffice which converts odt to pdf and you can be view it zathura.
How to convert document files? For example, DOC to PDF, DOC to XLSX, PDF to EPUB, etc. ?
1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 19 Jan 2021

pandoc-mode

Posts with mentions or reviews of pandoc-mode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-16.

I am able to use pandoc from the CLI but I don’t understand how to use pandoc from within emacs. For example to turn a .org to a .docx document.
4 projects | /r/emacs | 16 Mar 2022

In addition to ox-pandoc, which is specifically for using org with pandoc, there is pandoc-mode. I personally use multi-compile with specific commands for each mode (markdown, html, org, beamer, etc). You can see how I set this up in my config files here.
Maintainer for ox-pandoc!
1 project | /r/emacs | 23 Sep 2021

Note that there is also pandoc-mode, which is actively maintained.
Full Document Writing in Emacs?
2 projects | /r/emacs | 24 Apr 2021

I've written things in org and then used pandoc to convert, as the org exporter doesn't natively output .docx. There's a very nice pandoc-mode package that gives you a handy emacs interface for doing all the great stuff pandoc does.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing unoconv and pandoc-mode you can also consider the following projects:

python-docx - Create and modify Word documents with Python

emacs-multi-compile - emacs package multi-compile

xlwings - xlwings is a Python library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa. It works with Excel on Windows and macOS as well as with Google Sheets and Excel on the web.

ox-pandoc - Another org-mode exporter via pandoc.

python-pptx - Create Open XML PowerPoint documents in Python

ox-pandoc - Another org-mode exporter via pandoc.

docxtpl - Use a docx as a jinja2 template

Kaitai Struct - Kaitai Struct: declarative language to generate binary data parsers in C++ / C# / Go / Java / JavaScript / Lua / Nim / Perl / PHP / Python / Ruby

pyexcel - Single API for reading, manipulating and writing data in csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files

openpyxl

XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.

xlwt