Comment by simonw
13 hours ago
I imagine they would love to create a simple API for this, but the problem is convincing thousands of schools to use that API.
If all you can get are PDFs, attempting to automatically extract information from those PDFs is a reasonably decision to make. The challenge is doing it well enough to avoid these kind of show-stopper problems.
they're essentially an ATS SAAS for medical school, if they have enough schools or enough prestigious schools, they can ask for whatever they want and the applicant schools would oblige. cheeky way to make it happen overnight: give a slight advantage to transcripts that are submitted digitally- the conversion would be complete within months.
If you want to get sued, sure.