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Best Advice: How to take information stored as Documents and place in Database records?

Asked by dirknibleck in Theory, PHP Scripting Language, MySQL Server

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Ok, I'm looking to be pointed in the right direction here as I try to figure out how to develop an interface for a Resume Skills tracking Database.

What I'm trying to do is gather information from resumes that are currently stored in multiple Word Documents and PDFs and load this information into a MySQL database through a web app. The idea is to try to create a collection of Skills held by employees in our company.

Each document would be imported individually.

The basic process I've mapped out in my head is:

1.) User selects file to import
2.) My program (written in undetermined language, but preferably PHP) accesses this file and:
3a.) option a - programatically makes a "best guess" as to what the skills are and displays them for confirmation
or 3b.) option b- displays a visual of the document and asks the user to identify the skills section, thus recording the start and end of the data, once again displaying the skills for confirmation.
4.) Records these skills in a table.

Has anyone crafted something like this before?  Have you suggestions, or resources that I can follow?

I'm not really sure how to go about navigating the document. There are usually indicators such as Key words, underlining, bolding, larger font size etc to delimit sections and either line breaks or bullets to indicate the skills. When the document can't meet those expectations, I would expect the user to either key the skills manually or copy/paste.

Thanks!

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