RTF to Text
Upload RTF files and extract plain text. Supports batch processing for multiple files at once.
Free & unlimited
All processing happens in your browser. No data is sent to any server.
About this tool
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Upload an RTF file
Drag and drop or browse to select your .rtf file.
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Extract plain text
The tool strips all RTF formatting codes and extracts clean, readable text.
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Copy or download
Copy the extracted text to your clipboard or download it as a .txt file.
- Use this tool when you receive RTF files but only need the raw text content without formatting.
- The output preserves paragraph breaks but removes bold, italic, font, and color information.
- For batch conversion, process one file at a time and save each result.
- Complete removal of RTF formatting codes
- Preservation of paragraph and line break structure
- Handles complex RTF documents with tables and lists
- Download result as a plain .txt file
- Extract readable text from legacy RTF documents for migration to modern formats
- Strip formatting from RTF files before importing text into a CMS or database
- Convert RTF email attachments to plain text for quick reading
- Prepare RTF content for text analysis or natural language processing pipelines
The text content from tables and lists is extracted, but the visual structure (columns, bullet points) is converted to plain text with line breaks.
This tool specifically outputs plain text. For HTML or Markdown conversion, use a dedicated document converter.