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RTF to Markdown
RTF stores formatting as control words in plain text. Headings, emphasis and lists are recovered from those control words and written out as Markdown.
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How it works
- Drop your file on the box above, or click to choose one.
- The converter loads once, about 1.8 MB, and runs in this tab. Your file is not uploaded.
- Copy the Markdown, or download it as a
.mdfile.
What survives
- Bold, italic and strikethrough runs
- Lists with their nesting level
- Headings where the document uses heading styles
- Tables as GFM pipe tables
What does not
- RTF has no real heading concept — some writers only change the font size, which leaves nothing to detect a heading from.
- Embedded images are dropped.
- Files written by very old word processors can use control words outside the standard.
Questions
Why do quotation marks turn into Chinese characters in other converters?
Many editors write \ansicpg936 into the header while filling the body with Windows-1252 smart quotes. A converter that trusts the declaration decodes those bytes as GBK, and a quotation mark becomes a character like 揑. This site checks whether the high bytes actually pair up the way real double-byte text does, and corrects the declaration when they do not.
Does that break genuinely Chinese RTF files?
No. Real CJK text stores every character as two adjacent high bytes; smart quotes appear as isolated single ones. The correction only applies when the isolated bytes outnumber the paired ones.
Is my file uploaded to a server?
No. The converter is a WebAssembly build of the anydoc engine that runs inside your browser tab. Your file is read into memory, converted, and discarded when you close the page. Nothing is transmitted, stored, or logged.