Looking at an .rtf file and the spec and the available modules, the situation seems difficult. RTF::tokenizer seems helpful to reduce the complexity a bit. I have created a sample rtf file using MS Word which contains one table only and the following script gets me most contents of the table (and some more). I do not dare say whether this helps in your situation. 

use strict;
use warnings;
use RTF::Tokenizer;
my $rtf = RTF::Tokenizer->new( file => "A.rtf" );
my( $t, $a, $p );
my $on = 0;
while( $t ne "eof"  ) {
  ( $t, $a, $p ) = $rtf->get_token();
  print "TYPE|$t|ARGUMENT|$a|PARAMETER|$p|\n" if $on and $t eq "text";
+ 
  $on = 1 if $t eq "control" and $a eq "ltrrow";
  $on = 0 if $a eq "control" and $a eq "row"; 
}

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