Extract the plain text from an RTF file locally as TXT - no upload, with paragraphs preserved.
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RTF (Rich Text Format) is an old, widely supported document format that stores text together with control codes for fonts, colours and layout in a single file. Those embedded codes make an RTF file hard to read when you really only need the content. This tool removes all the formatting and outputs the plain, readable text as a simple TXT file.
The conversion runs entirely locally in your browser (pure JavaScript, no upload, even offline). The tool takes the RTF structure apart cleanly: the font and colour tables and the style sheets are discarded, paragraphs and line breaks become real breaks, tabs are kept, and encoded special characters (both Unicode and single bytes) are turned back into the correct characters. What remains is the running text.
This is handy when you receive an RTF file from an old word processor, an email or a template and want to reuse the text - to copy, to search, to paste into a script or to archive as a space-saving text file. Images, fonts, colours and the page layout are deliberately dropped; this is purely about the content. If you still need the styling, keep the original file.
| Input formats | RTF |
|---|---|
| Output format | TXT |
| Batch processing | Yes |
| Processing | Locally in your browser (JavaScript) |
| File upload | None |
Limitations: It outputs plain text with paragraph breaks - without images, fonts, colours, table layout or links. Embedded objects and complex tables are simplified or omitted. The character encoding follows the RTF file (Unicode and Windows-1252 bytes are supported); the TXT file is UTF-8. If you need the styling, keep the original.
No. The conversion happens entirely locally in the browser - even offline.
No. It outputs plain text; fonts, colours, images and layout are dropped. Paragraphs are kept as breaks.
Yes. Unicode codes and Windows-1252 bytes are turned back into the correct characters; the TXT file is UTF-8.
Images and embedded objects are dropped; tables are simplified to plain text.
Standard RTF files (Rich Text Format), as produced by WordPad, Word, LibreOffice and many email programs.