RussH wrote:Yep - I did wonder about that from HelpHand.. he had resume parsing working early on, and then the CATSONE guys introduced it as a 'paid for' feature later on.. Would be worthwhile digging into that one!
I take offense to this completely unfounded accusation as I wrote every single line of code for the Resfly parsing engine, which is enormous and was based on NO existing product by anyone -- simply several mathematical models and some own theories theories that I started in my own time as a skunk works project and later hacked into C++ and finally PHP. I worked and continue to work very hard on this project, this statement is extremely insulting.
The perl script written by HelpHand "guessed" names so long as your file names match the candidate name. Maybe an email here and then, but whos? The candidates or some reference they listed. And no offense to Helphand, but if you actually review his feature it was extremely simple and resembles a basic automated script at best.
Resly parsing is a HUGE project that can detect names, US address and phones, email, skill sets, education, experience, etc. from the entire document regardless of format or filename, or placement within the file. It parses the webpages sent from our toolbar from sites like Monster and it includes document conversion so that resume previews include markups like bold and color. It literally took months to develop and still isn't and will likely never be fully complete.
There are very few commercial parsers out there as good ones are extremely difficult to write. Companies like Sovren charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for SaaS parsing or up to 25c or more per resume parsed. Comparing a perl script that took at best an hour or two to write to a full fledged parsing solution is like comparing a skateboard to a jet airplane.