The example given in this subpar submission is not unique to PDF. The problem would not be much easier if the resumes were in Word, RTF or even plain text. Ther

The example given in this subpar submission is not unique to PDF. The problem would not be much easier if the resumes were in Word, RTF or even plain text. There are numerous tools to extract text from PDF documents. The hard part of this problem is finding discrete data in text that isn't in a standardized format. It is difficult to determine whether the author is referring to PDF as an image format or if he actually means that the resume is an image in the PDF file (as opposed to text created through OCR). If it is the latter, it is again not a PDF problem. JPEG images would not make the problem less difficult. I also don't like the attitude that non-technical people should know what is and isn't possible. That is our job. Many technical people claim things are "impossible" when they don't want to do them as well. If a technical person spends weeks on this before realizing that it is an extremely difficult problem then they are incompetent.