RTF Text - PLain Text

Question

Can I use the swing.text.rtf library to convert RTF text into plain text? If so, what's a quick way to do so? What I need to do is parse some given string of RTF code to see if there is any actual text inside (other than just RTF commands)
I wanted to use PDFFilter as referenced in PDFParser but apparently that class does not exist

Answer 1

sorry for resing the topic but I have almost exact same problem. However when I tested this solution it doesnt seem to work so I figured you may tell me what am I doing wrong. I have the following code
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.rtf.*;
public class rtf2text {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    try {
         StringReader sr = new StringReader("{\\lang1033\\langfe1049\\langnp1033  text \\par \\par \\par Some table \\par \\par \\par}");
      JEditorPane editor = new JEditorPane();
      RTFEditorKit kit = new RTFEditorKit();
      editor.setEditorKit(kit);
      javax.swing.text.Document doc = editor.getDocument();
      kit.read(sr, doc, 0);
      String s = doc.getText(0, doc.getLength());
      System.out.println("sAttachment\n >" + s + "<");
    catch (Exception ex) {
      ex.printStackTrace();
}and it doesnt return anything i.e. s="". What am doing wrong?