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DocumentCloud vs Pelican

A side-by-side look at DocumentCloud and Pelican. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

DocumentCloud

DocumentCloud

News & Books

DocumentCloud is a web-based platform that allows journalists, news organizations, and researchers to upload, annotate, organize, publish, and analyze primary source documents. It facilitates transparency and public access to source documents.

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Pelican

Pelican

Development

Pelican is a popular open source static site generator written in Python. It is designed for flexibility and extensibility, allowing developers to customize it for different projects. Pelican takes Markdown or reST content and generates complete static HTML websites that can be easily deployed.

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