Convert pdf to rtf open source

I am using OpenOffice3 on Ubuntu - see my latest edit below. See my answer here. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Joachim Sauer Joachim Sauer k 55 55 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. This is cross-platform, but unsuitable for desktop applications. Very suitable for running behind a web-server, though. That's true. Since I dabble mostly in server-side Java "cross-platform" is a lot more important for me than "suitable for a desktop app" ;- — Joachim Sauer.

Second this; finding information on how to do it on the LibreOffice wiki is proving problematic. Today I just tried Open-Office conversion using C and let me tell you, this works "good" but not perfect.

Show 1 more comment. You have a number of options depending on: the platform s your application will be running on whether your application will be a server application e. You provide JODConverter with an input and output file name as well as the input and output types e.

Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. You may want to ask a new question specific to combining the two. As I said, programming effort is high. A PDF file can be any length, contain any number of fonts and images and is designed to enable the creation and transfer of printer-ready output. Actions PDF Converter View other document file formats Technical Details Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents that includes the text, fonts, images and 2D vector graphics that compose the document.

They do not encode information that is specific to the application software, hardware, or operating system used to create or view the document. RTF Document File extension. You cannot add images or objects - it is purely aimed at text. Most people would have seen it when writing a 'wordpad rtf' file.

It defines control words and symbols that serve as common denominator formatting commands. Ulf Dittmer. Welcome to JavaRanch. The RTF Conversion looks little bit tricky do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks Anish. Martijn Verburg. I like It is easy to use and has a lot of other features that allow you to convert PDF to other formats. In fact, it is an all-rounded online tool that can come in handy when converting any file to nearly all popular formats. It has a lot of other file conversion features to help you convert documents from one format to another.

It is very easy to operate; all you have to do is upload the PDF document to the program and hit "Convert".