You do really need to get the content into HTML.
From the RTF document, can you remove the styles that apply to the text (which are probably creating the text boxes?)
Try selecting a section (are headers/chapters also in the text boxes?) and applying the "Normal" format. See what happens.
If applying styles changes the text look, you should be able to simplify everything (except, hopefully, italics, bold and headings) and then export it to HTML.
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