Interesting idea to hide features and activate it only for customers who request it. similar to gmail labs in my opinion. In our case, it slowly became difficult for us to manage the interface with many permutations possible based on what features were active. For now, we put that hold. Did you get into any such issues?

The problem mainly was too many configuration options. There is basically one user view (calendar) that is controlled by a bunch of options. Those options grew in numbers over the years. We just hide the more obscure ones until a customer comes along and asks for it.

Haven't tried antiword. As of now I find abiword pretty stable for both doc and docx. I need more data but I found a few cases where it just hanged while converting. There is no specific pattern to when the program hangs. For now I am logging such cases and timing out the conversion in 3 seconds.

Thanks.

Where do you get your doc files?

Are they the just ones submitted to your site, or is there a pastebin or similar repo of doc files?

Tika is very good at converting documents to plain text. Very reliable too. The problem for us was that, most resumes have a lot of formatting in them. For example candidates use tables to structure data. When such a resume is converted to plain text using tika, it looks jumbled.

Will take a look at pandoc. Thanks for suggesting.

It looks like an elaborate prank!

Looks likely. Whois information on the domain doesn't match apple.com.

edit: Plus, their search box redirects to Google. Amusing :)