I have now a set of around 10K RTF files which I want to import into Drupal as nodes. Roughly 600 of them have external images, linked using a structured file naming system. The RTF data is structured in volumes, each one to a directory, and then each page (more or less) is an RTF file.

We have defined the teaser as the first 150 words of each article, where articles are defined as beginning on certain pages in another file. We plan to make the teasers available publicly and the full text only to paying members.

I have poked around Google and drupal.com and I haven't really found any good solution for this type of import. The RTF files are not technically simple--some have tables and sideways text and other non-trivial RTF constructs.

Any ideas as how to begin with this job? Perhaps convert RTF to HTML or XML first?

Thanks, Fred