Is there a Python module for converting RTF to plain text?

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OpenOffice has a RTF reader. You can use python to script OpenOffice, see here for more info.

You could probably try using the magic com-object on Windows to read anything that smells ms-binary. I wouldn't recommend that though.

Actually parsing the raw data probably won't be very hard, see this example written in .bat/QBasic.

DocFrac is a free open source converter betweeen RTF, HTML and text. Windows, Linux, ActiveX and DLL platforms available. It will probably be pretty easy to wrap it up in python.

RTF::TEXT::Converter - Perl extension for converting RTF into text. (in case You have problems withg DocFrac).

Official Rich Text Format (RTF) Specifications, version 1.7, by Microsoft.

Good luck (with the limited privileges in Your working environment).