Parsing of Word/PDF documents

I need to automate our new candidate creation process for candidates that we have resumes for. We would like to parse name, address,email,phone information from these Word/PDF documents and then pre-populate the relevant salesforce fields when creating new candidates.

Kindly advice me on the best approach to achieve this.

June 11, 2012
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SaintMichael
A 100% salesforce solution, I dont think I could provide at this time.

If you don't mind a system to system architecture, you could use Apache POI or Apache TIKA to extract the content from the resumes, into a local DB or even text file.

Then, send that data over to salesforce via web services API.

2 steps.
This way, you don't re-invent the wheel when parsing the documents in salesforce.