Convert RTF to TXT — Free Online Converter

RTF mixes human-readable text with formatting control words (\b, \par, \pard, \trowd) in a plain-text file that is technically text but practically unreadable without a parser. TXT is pure text — readable by any human and any software. Converting RTF to TXT strips all formatting control words and produces a clean text file containing only the document's actual content.

The output is the document's text in its simplest possible form: words separated by spaces, paragraphs separated by line breaks, nothing else. It is the most minimal, most portable, and most universally readable representation of the document's content.

TXT is the most compatible file format ever created. Every operating system, every programming language, every text editor, every database, and every command-line tool can read TXT. When you need RTF content in the most portable possible form — for scripting, data processing, version control, or legacy system import — TXT is the answer.

TXT extraction is also a prerequisite for many automated workflows. Content migration scripts, search engine indexers, machine learning training pipelines, and text analytics platforms all require clean text input. RTF's control words interfere with these tools; TXT provides exactly what they need.