Rtf to txt on Unix

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Can anyone recommend software (preferably freeware) for batch converting rtf files to txt files on Unix?

Thor · Answer 1 · 2015-06-15T00:02:52.680

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There are many different ones, here are the ones I've tested successfully (all open source and free):

unrtf
wv
unoconv

edited Jun 15 '15 at 00:02

answered Aug 25 '12 at 11:32

Thor

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score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 09 '11 at 04:17

You didn't mention what flavour of UNIX but I think there's a textutil on many.

http://www.unix.com/man-page/All/1/TEXTUTIL/

 -convert fmt  Convert the specified files to the indicated format and
       write each one back to the file system.

       fmt is one of:  txt, html, rtf, rtfd, doc, docx, wordml,
               odt, or webarchive

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 15:23

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There is "unrtf", but while the Ubuntu package data claims that it can create text output, the GNU unrtf homepage does not mention that format. But perhaps you can try that.

answered Feb 08 '11 at 15:23

jstarek

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 08 '11 at 17:14

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A quick glance at an RTF file suggests that RTF markup is anything between {braces} and anything between a backslash and a space \markup. So maybe strings and a short sed/awk/perl script to delete markup would get you close to plain text.

answered Feb 08 '11 at 17:14

RedGrittyBrick

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Rtf to txt on Unix

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