You can load RTF data into MS RTF control using TextRTF property and extract plain text from Text property.

>Can one convert RTF to plain text programatically?
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>example:
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>TEXT TO mRTF
>{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang3081{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}}
>{\colortbl ;\red0\green64\blue128;}
>\viewkind4\uc1\pard\fs24 This is an \cf1\ul\b apple\cf0\ulnone\b0 .
>\par }
>ENDTEXT
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>How can one get the text from the above programatically?