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unrtf

Extract Text from Rich Text Format (RTF) Documents

v1.4.8 · Feb 26, 2026 · GPL-3
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Description

Wraps the 'unrtf' utility <https://www.gnu.org/software/unrtf/> to extract text from RTF files. Supports document conversion to HTML, LaTeX or plain text. Output in HTML is recommended because 'unrtf' has limited support for converting between character encodings.

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OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
NOTE 12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 7, 2026
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

R code for possible problems

Fatal error: cannot create 'R_TempDir'
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Version History

14 tracked
new 1.4.8 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.4.8 ← 1.4.7 diff Feb 25, 2026
updated 1.4.7 ← 1.4.6 diff Oct 26, 2024
updated 1.4.6 ← 1.4.5 diff Oct 3, 2024
updated 1.4.5 ← 1.4.4 diff Jan 29, 2024
updated 1.4.4 ← 1.4.3 diff Jan 17, 2024
updated 1.4.3 ← 1.4.2 diff Sep 25, 2023
updated 1.4.2 ← 1.4.1 diff Oct 17, 2022
updated 1.4.1 ← 1.4 diff Dec 8, 2021
updated 1.4 ← 1.3 diff Jan 12, 2020
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Nov 8, 2018
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Jan 25, 2018
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff Nov 17, 2017
new 1.0 Jun 9, 2017