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Version: 1.3
10/25/2005
89 KB
Operating system:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Universal Binary: Not yet
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.
Apart from batch-converting, rtftext can be quite helpful for some other uses, too. For instance, you could configure ht://Dig (a popular web crawling / searching engine) to use rtf2txt as an external parser for RTF files. As multiple text encodings are supported, it could also be used as a plaintext encoding converter.
Note for Users of Mac OS X 10.4: “Tiger” includes /usr/bin/textutil, which can perform the same tasks as rtf2txt and that has some additional features rtf2txt does not offer.
System requirements
This application was developed on Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4. DOC support is only available in OS X 10.3 and above.
Price / License
rtf2txt is freeware.