Reading RTF files

Hello VB People,
I'm not a VB developer, so I really need some help.
I'm developing a site in ASP and VBScript...
I don't know if anybody can give me any ideas, but I am sent a series of RTF files via FTP. I need to write some code to read the contents of the RTF file into a field. I can read the file in as text, but because the files sent to us are RTF, it comes in with all the formatting code and is basically unreadable.
SO, my question is:
Does anybody know a way to programatically convert an RTF into a TXT file?

I was told that if I have a copy of microsoft's "richtext" DLL (distributed with Visual Basic) on my server I can use it to convert the RTF to plain text.

Is this true? And if so what is the function that produces this conversion? How do I make a call to this function from my code in asp using vbscript?

Thanks for the help!