Tika is very good at converting documents to plain text. Very reliable too. The problem for us was that, most resumes have a lot of formatting in them. For example candidates use tables to structure data. When such a resume is converted to plain text using tika, it looks jumbled.
Will take a look at pandoc. Thanks for suggesting.
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You should also consider 'pandoc', written in Haskell, for converting between markup formats: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
I am curious for more details about why Tika wasn't good enough. Please explain.
Tika is very good at converting documents to plain text. Very reliable too. The problem for us was that, most resumes have a lot of formatting in them. For example candidates use tables to structure data. When such a resume is converted to plain text using tika, it looks jumbled.
Will take a look at pandoc. Thanks for suggesting.