PHP Decode RTF string

I have created a bridge which connects an ERP with a webshop (Woocommerce), some products have description which they used the Rich Text Editor from the ERP to create, when i get the product from an API Request the description is encoded to:

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I’m looking for a way to decode an RTF string with PHP.

Answers:

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Method 1

You may use this function to convert your RTF to string:

public function converToPlain($text){
    $text = preg_replace('"{*?\\.+(;})|\s?\[A-Za-z0-9]+|\s?{\s?\[A-Za-z0-9‹]+\s?|\s?}\s?"', '', $text);
    return $text;
}

Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42525858/8607640

Method 2

This fixed my problem completely
https://github.com/henck/rtf-html-php

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