Improved
Profile Parsing API now parses Word and PowerPoint resumes faster
7 days ago by Rajaa El Hamdani
Resumes sent as Word, PowerPoint, OpenDocument or RTF files are now parsed faster. In our benchmark, a Word resume is parsed in 1.69 s instead of 3.13 s, with the same result.
Action required
- Now: none.
POST /profile/parsing/filekeeps its parameters, its supported extensions and its response. - Later: none. Nothing in this update is deprecated.
What changed
- Resumes sent to
POST /profile/parsing/fileas.doc,.docx,.odt,.rtf,.ppt,.pptxor.odpfiles are parsed faster. The parsed profile is the same as before. PDF and image resumes are not affected.
Performance
| Before | After | |
|---|---|---|
| Parsing time of a Word (.docx) resume | 3.13 s | 1.69 s (45% less time) |
Median over 60 requests per version, one at a time, on the same Word resume and on production hardware, measured on 2026-10-08.
Example
curl -X POST https://api.hrflow.ai/v1/profile/parsing/file \
-H "X-API-KEY: <your_api_key>" \
-H "X-USER-EMAIL: <your_email>" \
-F "source_key=<source_key>" \
-F "[email protected]"The response is unchanged: a 201 with the parsed profile under data, as documented in the reference.