RT Converter

Extract text from RT files

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Drop or upload your .RT file

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How to extract text from your RT file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your RT file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert RT to another file type

To convert your RT file to another format, you need RealPlayer or other Text software.

RT to CBM
RT to RA
RT to MW
RT to HTML
RT to HTM
RT to CSS
RT to JS
RT to PHP
RT to ASP
RT to ASPX
RT to JSP
RT to JSPX

Convert a file to RT

To convert other file formats to the "Subtitle & Script Files" file type, you need software like RealPlayer or a similar tool.

RSS to RT
CSS to RT
CGI to RT
SITEMAP to RT
PL to RT
WEBMANIFEST to RT
JSON to RT
JS to RT
XML to RT
HTML to RT
ICO to RT
HTM to RT

About RT files

The .rt file extension represents a fragmented landscape of file formats, most commonly associated with RealText, a legacy streaming text format developed by RealNetworks. Designed for the RealPlayer ecosystem, these XML-based files display synchronized subtitles or captions alongside RealMedia streams. Because RealText is now largely obsolete, modern media players and web browsers cannot natively render the content, locking valuable transcript data inside a proprietary format.

In many corporate and administrative environments, an .rt file is simply a misnamed or truncated Rich Text Format (RTF) document. Users or older automated systems often shorten the standard RTF extension to .rt, causing operating systems to fail when attempting to open the file with Microsoft Word or WordPad. Additionally, the Unity game engine utilizes this extension for Render Target textures - binary assets used in real-time graphics pipelines that are not intended for external viewing.

Conversion Recommendations:

For Text/Subtitles: If the file contains readable text with XML tags, convert it to SRT (SubRip) for video compatibility or TXT to strip the formatting for plain reading.
For Documents: If the file is a misnamed document, converting to PDF ensures universal layout preservation, while DOCX is ideal for editing in modern word processors.
For Developers: Binary files are likely Unity assets; these should be imported directly into the engine rather than converted.

Convert.Guru analyzes your RT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted RT_, RTF, MFG, PAG, AMM, CBM, RA and MW files.

The RT Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our RT converter.