How to parse a resume using C#.net

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I want to parse a resume of any format i.e pdf/.doc by using C#.net. Is there any solution to do this?

Shaunak Shastri · Answer

Hello sujit, If your current approach of converting to XML is not giving you the results you need, you could use the following approach: 1- Get all the words in the document. 2- Search for keywords you need such as "skills" or "experience" and get their locations (coordinates). 3- Check the coordinates of other words and associate them with the keywords you found. To do this, you need a way of getting the words locations from documents. This seems to be done with OCR here: http://support.leadtools.com/SupportPortal/cs/forums/2788/ShowPost.aspx

sujit mohanty · Answer

Hello Akshay, I tried to parse by converting word document in to xml ,but the xml format is in paragraph mode i. Sujit Mohanty Adsress1 Adsress2 etc. From this format how do I Know which is name,address etc. Please find the below to see the details. Kindly help me..

sujit mohanty · Answer

Hello Akshya , Can you have any code to implement?

Akshay Phadke · Answer

I think you need to convert that document into XMl and then parse that XML into database then store in DB and then get filled with repectives textboxes

sujit mohanty · Answer

Yes Akshay, I want to parse the Resume by using C#.net and filled the name,adress,phoneno,skills ,project etc. with the respective textboxes & store in the DB. Example : In Naukri.com when the resume is uploaded automatically the texboxboxes gets filled up & store in the DB.

Akshay Phadke · Answer

What exactly you want to parse do you want to parse a document and save in database ? Kindly explain

sujit mohanty · Answer

I want to parse a resume of format pdf/doc by using C#.net. I have used aspose.word by using the following link https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Online-Resume-Parsing-1f6717c9#content It is working fine for name ,email-id & phone number extraction .But not completely extracting the keyskills,experience,projects etc.Which is vital part of the resume parsing. Can you please help me how to extract these by using aspose.word or is there any other solution?

Vinay Singh · Answer

Hi Please give more information about "parse a resume " what u want exactly.

Karthik Elumalai · Answer

Ok Sujit ,Then try the following solution http://blogs.quovantis.com/parsing-microsoft-word-document-using-c/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31376177/parse-word-doc-docx-document Important Note : In the below link, the same question was by someother user and answered clearly,this will be very useful for you https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fb4688d1-9555-4c27-a168-adb306b5be05/how-to-parse-word-document-using-c?forum=netfxnetcom Hope now this will give you some idea ,kindly let me know your thoughts thanks karthik

sujit mohanty · Answer

No Karthik ,this is completely different from my requirement.Is there any proper solution for resume parsing ?

Karthik Elumalai · Answer

Hi Sujit mohanty, Yeah, one of the option is you can use the openxml and read the files from that.Below is the link for that. http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/read-excel-files-using-open-xml-sdk-in-asp-net-c-sharp/ Note: In the above, I have used the excel in the same way you can use for any format with different object. kindly let me know your thoughts thanks karthik

How to parse a resume using C#.net

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