**Function:** Converts any text file of the types Plain Text, Rich Text, Word (Doc and WordML), HTML and Safari Webarchives into any other type.
**Author**: [Armin Briegel](http://homepage.mac.com/arminb/automator/)
**Input**: (Files/Folders) Text Files
**Output**: Files/Folders) Converted Text Files
I’m very impressed by this action! I was desperately trying to convert safari archives (a few hundred) to word format without messing up the layout. Everything else I tried failed, including my own pathetic scripting attempts. I would like to bake you cookies!
Comment by Sarah — October 5, 2005 @ 8:28 am
This is a great utility for large files. I used it on 485 files that I needed to covert to Text and it worked great. Saved me hours of file open and resaving! Thanks ARMIN!
Comment by Larry — November 27, 2005 @ 9:22 am
I’ve found this action really helpful, but it would get 5 stars if it had an option to save the file to it’s orginal folder. I use it to convert many Safari files to text docs, but I can only send the converted ones to the same place and would rather they stay sorted and go back to where they were. It’s great, though, that the action keeps the same name. Really helpful.
Please consider the above option of ‘saving to original folder’ for the next, and hopefully soon, improvement.
Thanks,
Deb
Comment by Deb — January 16, 2006 @ 6:03 pm
this is really helpful for putting my rtf documents into txt for the ipod
Comment by thomas — January 13, 2007 @ 10:18 am
I just get an Applescript error message. How do you get this to work?
Comment by Ken — March 27, 2007 @ 10:16 am
That’s ridiculously useful. I just used it to convert a whole folder of Word documents into nice Apple-made HTML files (which will now get some grep-cleaning with some BBEdit automator steps). Thanks for sharing!
Comment by jon — July 2, 2008 @ 6:32 am
Thank you very much indeed Armin – that’s a really useful action indeed.
Comment by John — August 9, 2008 @ 6:31 am