diff --git a/.ruby-version b/.ruby-version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be94e6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ruby-version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+3.2.2
diff --git a/.tool-versions b/.tool-versions
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b2d858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.tool-versions
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ruby 3.1.2
diff --git a/lib/word-to-markdown.rb b/lib/word-to-markdown.rb
index 6d57a47..c44ca21 100644
--- a/lib/word-to-markdown.rb
+++ b/lib/word-to-markdown.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 require_relative 'word-to-markdown/version'
 require_relative 'word-to-markdown/document'
 require_relative 'word-to-markdown/converter'
+require_relative 'word-to-markdown/pandoc-converter'
 require_relative 'nokogiri/xml/element'
 require_relative 'cliver/dependency_ext'
 
@@ -43,9 +44,15 @@ class WordToMarkdown
   # @param path [string] Path to the Word document
   # @param tmpdir [string] Path to a working directory to use
   # @return [WordToMarkdown] WordToMarkdown object with the converted document
-  def initialize(path, tmpdir = nil)
+  def initialize(path, tmpdir = nil, use_pandoc = false)
     @document = WordToMarkdown::Document.new path, tmpdir
-    @converter = WordToMarkdown::Converter.new @document
+
+    @converter = if use_pandoc
+                   WordToMarkdown::PandocConverter.new @document
+                 else
+                   WordToMarkdown::Converter.new @document
+                 end
+
     converter.convert!
   end
 
diff --git a/lib/word-to-markdown/document.rb b/lib/word-to-markdown/document.rb
index 997f230..6df608a 100644
--- a/lib/word-to-markdown/document.rb
+++ b/lib/word-to-markdown/document.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class NotFoundError < StandardError; end
     class ConversionError < StandardError; end
 
     attr_reader :path, :tmpdir
+    attr_writer :markdown, :raw_html
 
     # @param path [string] Path to the Word document
     # @param tmpdir [string] Path to a working directory to use
diff --git a/lib/word-to-markdown/pandoc-converter.rb b/lib/word-to-markdown/pandoc-converter.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c287c51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/word-to-markdown/pandoc-converter.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class WordToMarkdown
+  class PandocConverter
+    attr_reader :document
+
+    # @param document [WordToMarkdown::Document] The document to convert
+    def initialize(document)
+      @document = document
+    end
+
+    def convert!
+      document.raw_html = pandoc.to_html
+      #raw_markdown = pandoc.to_markdown # NOTE: Try GFM, CommonMark, or + Extensions
+      #document.markdown = document.send(:scrub_whitespace, raw_markdown)
+    end
+
+    private
+
+    def pandoc
+      require 'pandoc-ruby'
+      @pandoc ||= PandocRuby.new([document.path], from: 'docx')
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/test/helper.rb b/test/helper.rb
index c101f65..6a4c5b4 100644
--- a/test/helper.rb
+++ b/test/helper.rb
@@ -18,7 +18,12 @@ def fixture_path(fixture = '')
 end
 
 def validate_fixture(fixture, expected)
-  assert_equal expected, WordToMarkdown.new(fixture_path(fixture)).to_s
+  path = fixture_path(fixture)
+  old = WordToMarkdown.new(path).to_s
+  assert_equal expected, old, "LibreOffice"
+
+  new = WordToMarkdown.new(path, nil, true).to_s
+  assert_equal expected, new, "Pandoc"
 end
 
 def stub_doc(html)
diff --git a/word-to-markdown.gemspec b/word-to-markdown.gemspec
index c903aa7..1eac271 100644
--- a/word-to-markdown.gemspec
+++ b/word-to-markdown.gemspec
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency('cliver', '~> 0.3')
   s.add_dependency('descriptive_statistics', '~> 2.5')
   s.add_dependency('nokogiri-styles', '~> 0.1')
+  s.add_dependency('pandoc-ruby', '~> 2.0')
   s.add_dependency('premailer', '~> 1.8')
   s.add_dependency('reverse_markdown', '>= 1', '< 3')
   s.add_dependency('sys-proctable', '~> 1.0')