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rtf2txt 1.3


rtf2txt rtf2txt - Convert Microsoft Word to text documents

System Requirememts
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Download Details
Company Carsten Bluem
Version 1.3
Post Date June 06, 2009
License Freeware
File Size 73 KB
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rtf2txt 1.3


rtf2txt - Convert Microsoft Word to text documents
rtf2txt is a shell utility which reads RTF, HTML, DOC (only on OS X v10.3) and/or plaintext from one or more files, converts it to plaintext, optionally changes its encodings and writes it to STDOUT.

In order to batch-convert thousands of a client's RTF files into plain text, I needed a shell program running on Mac OS X. As I didn't find any convincing solutions (apps like "UnRTF" or "RTFeeder" don't handle German umlauts correctly), I ended up writing one myself.
Thanks to the Cocoa framework used, the program can not only handle RTF, but also HTML and DOC (only on MAC OS X 10.3) files.

What's New in This Release:

  • improves handling of non-ASCII-characters in paths and filenames when the terminal encoding is not MacRoman.