Peel the formatting off an RTF file by converting to TXT - what remains is pure text for scripts, grep, diffs, and minimal editors. RTF is text-with-codes rather than a binary format, and this conversion removes the codes; the words the file displayed are exactly what you keep.
Convert RTF to TXT – Free Online RTF to TXT Converter
Why convert RTF to TXT?
- Clean pasted-from-Word content before it enters code, config files, or a database field.
- Search rich-text archives with command-line tools that see RTF markup as garbage.
- Cut file size to the absolute minimum for text that never needed formatting anyway.
Tip: Smart quotes, em dashes, and bullet characters survive as Unicode text - if a downstream system is ASCII-only, replace them afterwards, because the conversion faithfully keeps them.
How to convert RTF to TXT
- Upload your RTF file using the area above.
- TXT is preselected as the target format.
- Click Start and wait for the conversion to finish.
- Download your converted TXT file.