Yes, it's definitely possible to convert PDF to RTF and text, so long as the PDF file contains some text and is not simply a scanned image or something along those lines. One way to find out if a PDF contains any text is to open it in Adobe Reader and use the 'Select text' tool to see if you can select any of the text shown in the document.

There are a number of different commercial and free applications available for converting PDF to RTF and text. Here is a list of just some of them:

Convert PDF to Text

• PDF Text Extractor - (Free, Windows)
• Quick PDF Tools - (Free, Windows)
• PDFTextOnline - (Free, Online)
• Adobe Acrobat - (Commercial, Windows/Mac)
• Nitro PDF Professional - (Commercial, Windows)
• PDF Converter Professional - (Commercial, Windows)

Convert PDF to RTF

• PDF to Word - (Free, Online)
• Able2Doc - (Commercial, Windows)
• PDF to RTF Converter - (Commercial, Windows)
• Adobe Acrobat - (Commercial, Windows/Mac)
• Nitro PDF Professional - (Commercial, Windows)
• PDF Converter Professional - (Commercial, Windows)

And of course, if you're looking for development solutions, there are quite a few SDKs available for extracting text from a PDF as well.