POD is the format the documentation of Perl and every Perl modules is written.
There are many tools parsing them, extracting information and converting them to other formats.
Recommended
Pod::Simple, framework for parsing Pod.
Test::Pod check for POD errors in files.
Pod::Weaver weave together a Pod document from an outline.
Pod::Perldoc Look up Perl documentation in Pod format. (This is what the perldoc command uses.)
Pod::Html convert pod files to HTML (part of Perl core. provides the pod2html command).
Other
(not categorized yet)
Pod::Tree can create a syntax tree from POD file. Looks interesting though it had not seen a new release since 2010.
Pod::S5 Generate S5 slideshow from POD source.
Pod::Perldoc::ToToc Translate Pod to a Table of Contents.
Pod::POM, POD Object Model needs a new maintainer.
Pod::Man Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
Pod::XML Module to convert POD to XML. No version since 2007.
Pod::Hlp convert POD data to formatted VMS HLP Help module text. No new release since 2001. Pod::Pdf A POD to PDF translator. No version since 2000. There are probably better solutions.
Pod::Tests Extracts embedded tests and code examples from POD.
Pod::SAX a SAX parser for Pod.
Tk::Pod Pod browser toplevel widget for Perl/Tk.
Pod::Loom Weave pseudo-POD into real POD.
Pod::Parser base class for creating POD filters and translators. This module is considered legacy; modern Perl releases (5.18 and higher) are going to remove Pod-Parser from core and use Pod-Simple for all things POD. Pod::Find find POD documents in directory trees (part of Pod::Parser).
Pod::Spell a formatter for spellchecking Pod
Pod::CYOA Pod-based Choose Your Own Adventure website generator
Pod::PXML Convert between POD and XML. (no release since 2004)
Pod::Help Perl module to automate POD display.
Pod::LaTeX Convert Pod data to formatted Latex.
LaTeX::Pod Transform LaTeX source files to POD.
Pod::Index Index and search PODs using X<> entries.
Pod::PP POD pre-processor - has not seen any release for ages. It is based on Pod::Parser which itself is considered legacy code.
Pod::Rtf, convert pod documentation to Rich Text Format (rtf) suitable for compilation by a Windows Help compiler.
Lip::Pod Literate Perl to POD conversion.
Pod::Cats The POD-like markup language written for podcats.in
Pod::Site Build browsable HTML documentation for your app.
Pod::L10N Pod with L10N.
Pod::Wrap Wrap pod paragraphs, leaving verbatim text and code alone. (no release since 2004.) based on Pod::Parser.
Pod::Stripper strip all pod, and output what's left. (no release since 2002)
Pod::WSDL Creates WSDL documents from (extended) pod.
Pod::Trac Convert a POD to trac's wiki syntax and add it to the trac. (no release since 2007)
Pod::Tidy reformatting Pod Processor.
Pod::HTML Translate POD into HTML file (from 1996)
POD Best Practices
Read perlpod and perlpodstyle.
