PDF to RTF
Pull the embedded text out of a PDF into a downloadable .rtf file — pick a page range, optionally keep page markers, then download. Runs entirely in your browser; your file is never uploaded.
Input
Conversion runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded.
Extracted RTF
Upload a PDF and press Convert to RTF. The file is built in your browser — download it when you're ready.
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PDF to RTF pulls the embedded text out of a PDF file and packages it as a downloadable .rtf (Rich Text Format) file, right in your browser. No signup, no upload — the file is read and converted entirely on your device.
How to use it
- Upload a PDF file.
- Optionally enter a page range (like
1-3,5) — leave it blank to extract every page. - Toggle page markers on or off — on inserts a
--- Page N ---line before each page's text, useful for finding where something came from in a long document. - Press Convert to RTF, then download
extracted.rtf.
Why convert PDF to RTF in the browser?
Most online PDF-to-RTF tools upload your document to a server to convert it. This one does the whole job locally using pdf.js, the same rendering engine behind Firefox's built-in PDF viewer, so contracts, notes and anything else private never leave your device.
Does this preserve bold, italic or fonts from the PDF?
No — pdf.js's text extraction pulls out plain text, not styling, so the output RTF carries no formatting recovered from the original PDF. Each extracted line becomes its own paragraph, which opens cleanly in Word, WordPad, TextEdit or any other RTF reader — the same starting point tools.pdf24.org's server-side conversion produces.
Does this work on scanned PDFs?
Only if the PDF already has a text layer (most scanners and "Print to PDF" tools produce one automatically). A pure image scan with no embedded text has nothing for this tool to extract — if a file comes back empty, try Scanned PDF Converter, which runs OCR to build a text layer first.
Your file is processed entirely on your device and is never uploaded.