RTF to Markdown Converter

RTF (Rich Text Format) is a plain-text document format from Microsoft. It stores text along with formatting codes like \b for bold and \par for a new paragraph. WordPad on Windows and TextEdit on Mac save RTF by default, and almost every word processor can open and save it.

No. The RTF file is read and converted by a parser that runs in your browser. Nothing leaves your device.

Paragraphs, line breaks, bold, italic, strikethrough, links, bullet and numbered lists, simple tables and headings. Headings come from Word heading styles, outline levels, or text noticeably larger than the body text. Fonts, colours and underline are dropped because Markdown has no equivalent.

Yes. Unicode characters (including emoji), accented letters and code pages such as Cyrillic, Greek, Central European, Japanese and Chinese are decoded using the code page declared in the file and its fonts.

Images are skipped and counted. RTF stores pictures in formats such as WMF and EMF that Markdown and most browsers can't display.

Check that the file really is RTF. If it was renamed from another format, such as .docx or .txt, the tool tells you it doesn't start with the {\rtf header that every RTF file has.