Pandoc

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Used for converting file formats

https://ins3cure.com/pandoc-on-rhel-8/

Go to https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest, download the latest tarball (currently pandoc-2.17.0.1-linux-64.tar.gz) and run:

sudo tar xvzf pandoc-2.17.0.1-linux-64.tar.gz --strip-components 1 -C /usr/local/

install TeX to be able to generate PDF output:

sudo yum -y install texlive

Basic useage

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pandoc inputfile -f inputfiletype -t outputfiletype -o outputfile

Convert full folder

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for f in *; do pandoc "$f" -s -o "../bloghtml/${f%}.html"; done

Convert epub to markdown and migrate to Obsidian

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Run pandoc bookname.epub -o bookname.md --extract-media=images

This will create the file and an image folder. Place the image folder in your Obsidian attachments folder. Also, place the markdown file in your Obsidian vault and Obsidian will see all of the image references.

Then, you can run Obsidian’s Text Extractor to pull the text from the image to your clipboard.