# PDF to RTF Converter

> Convert PDF text into Rich Text Format that opens in any word processor.

PDF to RTF Converter runs entirely in your browser. The PDF is parsed on your own device with pdf.js, its paragraphs, headings and tables are recovered from the text layer and written into a genuine RTF file. Nothing is uploaded, which is the reason to use this on a contract, a payslip or a medical letter.

**URL:** https://convertto.tech/t/pdf-to-rtf
**Category:** PDF Tools (https://convertto.tech/c/pdf-tools)
**Privacy:** Runs entirely in the browser; no upload
**Cost:** Free, no sign-up
**Last updated:** 2026-08-01

## Key facts

- **Output:** One RTF file
- **Privacy:** Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded
- **Cost:** Free, unlimited, no sign-up

## How to use

1. Select your pdf file — the file stays on your device and is never uploaded.
2. Enter or paste your pages.
3. Turn "Rebuild paragraphs" on or off as needed.
4. Enter or paste your page plan.
5. Press Run, then download the result when it is ready.

## FAQ

### Why do accented characters come out correctly here?

Because RTF predates Unicode and needs the \u escape, which most converters skip — they write raw UTF-8 into a Latin-1 format and every accent arrives as mojibake. Here each non-ASCII character is written as its RTF escape with an ASCII fallback, so the file is correct in both modern and ancient readers.

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