diff --git a/server-ce/Dockerfile-base b/server-ce/Dockerfile-base
index f05927ee5d..e3e7429804 100644
--- a/server-ce/Dockerfile-base
+++ b/server-ce/Dockerfile-base
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/var/cache/apt,sharing=locked \
       unattended-upgrades \
       build-essential wget net-tools unzip time poppler-utils optipng strace nginx git python3 python-is-python3 zlib1g-dev libpcre3-dev gettext-base libwww-perl ca-certificates curl gnupg \
       qpdf \
+      pandoc \
 # upgrade base-image, batch all the upgrades together, rather than installing them on-by-one (which is slow!)
 &&  unattended-upgrade --verbose --no-minimal-upgrade-steps \
 # install Node.js https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#nodejs
diff --git a/server-ce/config/env.sh b/server-ce/config/env.sh
index bc0109beeb..bf21b9a712 100644
--- a/server-ce/config/env.sh
+++ b/server-ce/config/env.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+export ENABLE_PANDOC_CONVERSIONS=true
 export CHAT_HOST=127.0.0.1
 export CLSI_HOST=127.0.0.1
 export DOCSTORE_HOST=127.0.0.1