rtf2txt 1.3 review

rtf2txt is a shell utility which reads RTF, HTML, DOC (only on OS X v10.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 88K Developer: Carsten Bluem Price: $0.00 Updated: 23 Aug 2006

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rtf2txt is a shell utility which reads RTF, HTML, DOC (only on OS X v10.3) and/or plaintext from one or more files, converts it to plaintext, optionally changes its encodings and writes it to STDOUT.

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.

What's New:
improves handling of non-ASCII-characters in paths and filenames when the terminal encoding is not MacRoman.