Parsing Uploaded Resumes into Form Fields with Google Gemini

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As I’ve recently become somewhat familiar with job application sites (sigh, thanks Adobe), I’ve noticed an interesting feature some sites use. After selecting your resume to upload, they will parse the resume and either offer to, or automatically, fill in some of the form fields of the application for you. I thought it would be interesting to try this myself making use of Google’s Gemini APIs. Here’s what I discovered. The Test Script As always, I began with a script that would take a hard-coded resume and attempt to parse it. For the most part, this is basic "upload a file and ask the AI to talk about", but in my case, I wanted a very particular set of data... more →
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Parsing Markdown in ColdFusion

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Welcome to my third, yes, third, ColdFusion post in 2024. Is it a trend? Who knows. That being said, I’m doing some prep work to update my presentation on Google Gemini in preparation for my talk at Adobe’s ColdFusion Summit later this month, I’m updating my Node.js demos to ColdFusion and ran into an interesting issue – converting Markdown responses from Gemini to HTML. Edit: I realized I gave my function at the bottom a dumb name. I updated the code to reflect a better name on 9/18/2024 My first quick Google searches didn’t really mesh well with what I expected, so I asked on the CFML Slack and James Moberg pointed out a few options, but suggested I focus on Flexmark... more →
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