RTF to Plain Text in Java

Question

How do you convert an RTF string to plain text in Java? The obvious answer is to use Swing\'s RTFEditorKit, and that seems to be the common answer around the Internet. How

Answer 1

You might consider RTF Parser Kit as a lightweight alternative to the Swing RTFEditorKit. The line below shows plain text extraction from an RTF file. The RTF file is read from the input stream, the extracted text is written to the output stream.

new StreamTextConverter().convert(new RtfStreamSource(inputStream), outputStream, "UTF-8");

(full disclosure: I'm the author of RTF Parser Kit)