RTF to TXT Converter
Convert RTF to TXT online, for free.
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- From Google Drive
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How to Convert RTF to TXT?
- Click the “Choose Files” button to select your RTF files.
- Click the “Convert to TXT” button to start the conversion.
- When the status change to “Done” click the “Download TXT” button
Easy to Use
Simply upload your RTF files and click the convert button. You can also batch convert RTF to TXT format.
Best Quality
We use both open source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. In most cases, you can fine-tune conversion parameters using “Advanced Settings” (optional, look for the icon).
Free & Secure
Our RTF to TXT Converter is free and works on any web browser. We guarantee file security and privacy. Files are protected with 256-bit SSL encryption and automatically deleted after 8 hours.
Rich Text Format (RTF) is a document format Microsoft created so that formatted text could move between different word processors and operating systems. An RTF file is plain text with formatting written as readable control codes, so bold, italics, fonts, colours, tables, and images survive the journey while the file stays open and inspectable. That universality made RTF the safe middle ground for decades, and virtually every word processor ever written can read it.
How to open an RTF file?
RTF opens with no extra software on any system: WordPad and Word on Windows, TextEdit on macOS, and LibreOffice or Google Docs everywhere else.
Because the format is plain text underneath, you can also open an RTF in any text editor to inspect its markup directly. Microsoft stopped developing RTF in 2008, and it does not support modern features such as tracked changes or comments, so convert important documents with our RTF to DOCX tool.
Developed by: Microsoft
Initial Release: 1987
Plain Text (TXT) is the simplest document format there is: nothing but characters, with no fonts, colours, images, or layout information of any kind. What a TXT file does carry is a character encoding — today almost always UTF-8 — which determines how the bytes map to letters. Because there is no hidden structure, TXT is the most portable and durable format available, readable on every computer ever made.
How to open a TXT file?
Every operating system opens TXT out of the box: Notepad on Windows, TextEdit on macOS, and gedit or nano on Linux. Web browsers display them too.
For large files or code, a proper editor such as Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, or Sublime Text is much faster and lets you change the encoding if the text appears garbled. Odd symbols usually mean the file was saved in a different encoding than the one your editor assumed. To hand a plain-text document to someone in a formatted form, use our TXT to PDF tool.
Developed by: No single vendor — an open, universal convention
Initial Release: 1963 (ASCII)
Freeconvert.me can convert your other files to TXT format:
Freeconvert.me can convert your RTF files to these other formats:
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