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November 25, 2025

Enhanced

Improved recognition of French driver's licenses
Fixed an issue with non-ASCII characters in email prefixes

November 20, 2025

Enhanced

Fixed an issue with non-ASCII characters in email prefixes

November 13, 2025

Enhanced

Improved normalization of "staff physician" jobs
Various IT networking skills added to the skills taxonomy
Various improvements to French profession normalization
Various additions to the French profession taxonomy

November 12, 2025

Enhanced

Improved recognition of British phone numbers

October 20, 2025

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Master degrees in CV and vacancy parsing (no longer misclassifying terms like 'Scrum Master')

October 14, 2025

Enhanced

Improved character recognition from PDF documents.
Improved Pdf-to-text conversion for all languages

September 30, 2025

Enhanced

Improved localization for ADR Certification.
IT skill coverage improvements in all languages
French skill normalization improvements
Improved taxonomy coverage of HR job titles and skills in English
Improve coverage of modern IT skills in skill extraction and normalization.
Improved normalization of German assembly supervisor jobs
Various French job titles added to the professions taxonomy
Skill normalization added in 5 new languages: Bulgarian (BG), Estonian (ET), Latvian (LV), Korean (KO) and Thai (TH)

September 1, 2025

Enhanced

Improved US state classification: Washington state vs Washington D.C.

August 4, 2025

Enhanced

Improved name extraction from German CVs
Improved parsing of multi-line LinkedIn URLs in CVs

June 30, 2025

Enhanced

Various truck driven positions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved normalization of German pilot professions
Cloud-related skills added to the skills taxonomy
10 new skills added to the skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong normalization of German 'kochen'
Fixed an issue concerning the recognition of .NET skills

May 26, 2025

Fixed

Fix for Canadian addresses being extracted as french names.

April 14, 2025

Enhanced

Improved name parsing in case a middle name is present

April 9, 2025

Enhanced

Improved Chinese job title normalization (simplified and traditional)

March 31, 2025

Enhanced

Improved Japanese skill extraction
Better coverage of English certifications
Added various Dutch Certifications to the certifications taxonomy
Improved normalization of "Customs and Trade Associate"
Added profession 'Surface treatment operator' to the professions taxonomy
Fixed wrong normalization of 'Commercial employee' jobs
Fixed normalization of branch manager jobs
Improved normalization of Optician jobs in German

March 24, 2025

Enhanced

Improved language level mapping in French
Improved contextual validation of skills

March 3, 2025

Enhanced

Fixed an issue with missing address info from fixed-format CVs
Improved name extraction in English and Dutch
Improved handling of column CVs with sidebar

February 18, 2025

Fixed

Fixed mixup of location and employer's name in German CVs

February 3, 2025

Enhanced

Improved handling of salary information coming from structured input

January 21, 2025

Enhanced

Improved detection of French addresses (#28225)
Improved detection of addresses from Malaysia (#26788)
Improved detection of addresses from Ireland (#26537)
Improve city detection for educational institutions (#23041)
Romanian CVs: Improve extraction of CVs from BestJobs
Remove the country code when mentioned in the postal codes for Austria, Germany and Switzerland (#26395)

Fixed

Fixed an issue resulting in 'Compétence' tagged as name

January 6, 2025

Enhanced

Improved classification of BI Developer jobs
Improve coverage of English and Hebrew skills

December 19, 2024

Enhanced

Swiss German recognized as separate language code
Improved classification of BI Developer jobs
Improved classification of medical sales professions in German
Added 4 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
Improved normalization of electrician jobs
Improved Swiss-French medical profession names
Various enrichments of the English professions taxonomy

December 16, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed wrong normalization of Dutch education level "MBO"

December 13, 2024

Enhanced

Improve coverage of English and Hebrew skills
Greatly improved Japanese skills extraction
Added various US certifications to the certifications taxonomy

December 9, 2024

Enhanced

The parser ignores hidden sample texts from Canva CVs

Fixed

Fixed issue concerning phone numbers being parsed from URLs

November 26, 2024

Enhanced

Improved parsing of Canadian addresses
English CV parser: 5-10% faster parsing especially for longer documents

November 12, 2024

Enhanced

Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
Added various US certifications to the certifications taxonomy

November 11, 2024

Enhanced

Improved Dutch name parsing
English: 10-20% faster parsing, even faster for longer CVs

October 14, 2024

Enhanced

PDFs: improved language guessing (#24320)
Improve detection of Canadian addresses (#25451)

October 2, 2024

Enhanced

Swiss German recognized as separate language code
Fixed normalization of biology/match teachers
Fixed normalization of pool lifeguards and swimming instructors in French
Improved normalization of 'product designer' titles
Improved normalization of mechanical engineers in German
Improved casing consistency of profession descriptions
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy

August 19, 2024

Enhanced

Improved email extraction with special characters in the vicinity (#22903)
Improved handling of USA education institutions (#23242)
Improve handling of addresses written in Cyrillic (#24260)

August 15, 2024

Enhanced

Medical Doctorates in the US no longer get classified as "Masters", but as "PhD or Professional Doctorate" (renamed from just "PhD")

August 7, 2024

Enhanced

Improve handling of addresses from Puerto Rico (#23241)
Improvements to country detection (#21406, #22904)

August 1, 2024

Enhanced

Greatly improved normalization of English job titles used in non-English documents

July 24, 2024

Enhanced

Improved French medical skill extraction

July 8, 2024

Enhanced

Improve handling of 2 letter English first names
Improvements to country detection (Zendesk #22394)

June 27, 2024

Enhanced

Improved classification of job titles to the AMS profession taxonomy
Added Golang Developer to the professions taxonomy
Corrected normalization of Barrister jobs
Improved normalization of Dutch 'Conducteur' job titles
Improved normalization of (Swiss) German medical professions
Better handling of seniority (head, C-level, etc.) of product and operations roles in profession normalization.
Improved normalization of apprenticeship professions in (Swiss) German
Various medical professions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved French medical skill extraction
Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

June 24, 2024

Added

New feature: option to output an HTML version of the original in which personally identifiable information is marked and can be redacted

Enhanced

Italian CVs: improvements to address splitting (Zendesk #21262)
Ignore emails address of certain CV generators

June 11, 2024

Enhanced

Improved parsing of LinkedIn HTML input
Improved parsing of UK addresses (Zendesk #2821, #3582)

May 29, 2024

Enhanced

Added various networking technology skills to the skills taxonomy
Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

May 22, 2024

Enhanced

LinkedIn HTML: better parsing for new HTML formats
Japanese: significant improvement to many parsing fields

April 29, 2024

Enhanced

Better handling of USA addresses in which house numbers have a dash

April 25, 2024

Enhanced

Patch release the professions taxonomy with a fix for wrongly mapped ISCO codes

April 16, 2024

Enhanced

Ignore emails address of certain CV generators
Improvements to detection of Canadian addresses

April 2, 2024

Enhanced

Improved coverage of (Swiss) German medical skills
Added 20+ medical skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages.
Added 10 new skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages
Improved skill extraction of Hebrew CVs
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Various job titles added to the professions taxonomy based on Swiss market data
Improved Japanese Profession normalization
Improved normalization of 'apprenticeship' professions
Added Corporate Recruiter to the professions taxonomy
Improved Japanese profession normalization
Added 12 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Added 25 new healthcare professions to the professions taxonomy

Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 27, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed casing of Britisch local education levels

Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 19, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed casing of Britisch local education levels

March 18, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed issues with parsing of LinkedIn Public and Private HTML profiles

March 5, 2024

Enhanced

Linkedin PDF: Better handling of names with many titles
Improvements to handling US addresses

February 6, 2024

Enhanced

Improvements to first and last name detection for English language CVs
Extract national id numbers in Hebrew and South Africa CVs

January 30, 2024

Enhanced

Added support for language skills Pedi and Sepedi

January 25, 2024

Enhanced

Improved Japanese profession normalization

January 22, 2024

Enhanced

Hebrew CVs: large improvements to parsing of course items

January 9, 2024

Enhanced

Linkedin HTML private profiles: improve parsing in light of recent HTML changes

December 14, 2023

Enhanced

Added support for language skills Pedi and Sepedi
Added more Gen AI tools to the skills taxonomy
Added Prodigy (annotation tool) to the skills taxonomy
13 skills added to the skills taxonomy for all Tier 1 languages
Added Hebrew language skills
Add skill COSYS to the skills taxonomy
Improved the names of three German IT job titles
Changed the gender tag (m/v) to (m/v/d) in Dutch profession normalization
Improved normalization of IT professions in English
Fixed wrong normalization of Front End Clerk jobs
Improved taxonomy coverage on watchmaker professions

December 11, 2023

Enhanced

Hebrew: Significant improvements to date and name parsing
Portugese: Improved name extraction for certain corner cases
Infer and return the county for US addresses (Data Model 2 only)

November 16, 2023

Enhanced

Improve detection of ambiguous Canadian cities

October 30, 2023

Enhanced

Improved address parsing from CV's in Malta

October 13, 2023

Enhanced

Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Improved recognition of language skills by written as iso code
Added various CompTIA skills to the skills taxonomy
16 new skills added to the skills taxonomy
Improved accuracy of finance and insurance skills

October 12, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of two-character language skills

October 10, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of language skills by written as iso code

September 28, 2023

Enhanced

Improved classification of CFO/CFA job titles
Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Renamed some French professions that exist both in English and French
Improved Spanish profession normalization for planner jobs
Improved normalization of French professions
Various improvements to Italian profession normalization
Fixed wrong normalization of cashier job titles
Various improvements to Spanish job title normalization

September 26, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Bachelor's degrees
Fixed Québec (CA) education levels

Fixed

Fixed an issue related to parsing Bachelor Degrees from jobs

September 20, 2023

Enhanced

Improve national IDs extraction for Colombia

September 5, 2023

Enhanced

Improved Japanese Skills Extraction

July 26, 2023

Enhanced

CV-IT: Improved extraction of company and location in experience section

July 12, 2023

Enhanced

LinkedIn PDF: Improve location extraction for multiple positions in the same company

June 29, 2023

Enhanced

Various improvements to French job title normalization
Improved normalization of Agile-related job titles
Various improvements to Italian job title normalization
Improved normalization of the Dutch job title "Instructeur serveren"
50 new professions added to the Professions Taxonomy
Four new professions added to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the German professions taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong German translation of "Police Surveillance Officer"
Corrected the ISCO code mapping for Product Owner
Fixed wrong normalization of Dutch job title "Adviseur (Digitale) Geletterdheid"
Fixed wrong normalization of "Credit Control Officer"

June 27, 2023

Enhanced

Improve name extraction in column CVs. Applies to documents in which the name is in the right column in large font

May 26, 2023

Enhanced

Improved region classification in Japanese job parsing

May 22, 2023

Enhanced

Better classification of German education level "Weiterbildung"

May 16, 2023

Enhanced

Improved skill extraction for Czech, Slovak, Croation, Slovenian, Greek, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian and Russian
Improved the classification of the education level 'Weiterbildung' in Germany
Improved classification of language level 'scolaire' in French
Improved region recognition for Clipperton and Saint-Barthélemy

Fixed

Fixed an issue concerning email addresses that contain white spaces.

May 3, 2023

Enhanced

Keep original "https" in extracted social medial links

April 18, 2023

Enhanced

Italian: Improved interpretation of dates
Better handling of CVs where last name is only an initial

March 31, 2023

Enhanced

Added ±10 SAP-related IT skills to the skills taxonomy
Added ±500 new skills to the Skills taxonomy
Added translations of two languages: Balochi and Aramaic
Added various Portuguese skills to the skills taxonomy
6 New skills added to the Skill Taxonomy

March 30, 2023

Enhanced

Added +- 80 German job title synonyms to the professions taxonomy
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy, and renamed 7 professions in French
Various improvements to German job title cleaning
1170 job title synonyms added to the German Professions Taxonomy
Various improvements to the German professions taxonomy
Various improvements to Portuguese profession normalization

March 21, 2023

Enhanced

Added translations of two languages: Balochi and Aramaic

February 22, 2023

Enhanced

Better support for overseas territories
Improved recognition of Chinese phone numbers
Improved handling of abbreviated dates
Improvements to country classification

January 24, 2023

Enhanced

LinkedIn HTML: Add support for manually added phone numbers

January 11, 2023

Enhanced

Improved cleaning of job titles from Ireland
Improved Portuguese profession normalization
Improved Japanese profession normalization

January 10, 2023

Enhanced

Indeed CVs: added support for recognizing postal codes in address
LinkedIn HTML: Fix rare case where experience is not extracted

December 15, 2022

Enhanced

Various improvements to the French profession taxonomy
(m/f) tags were removed from profession descriptions in English, and -man suffixes (e.g. craftsman) were replaced by gender neutral equivalents (craftsperson)
Added SQL developer as a separate profession
Three Javascript frameworks added to the skills taxonomy
Added new diploma for French language
Hundreds of new terms added to the Japanese skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese

December 5, 2022

Enhanced

Added SQL developer as a separate profession

November 30, 2022

Enhanced

Skill extraction improved for all accounts from before 2020 (up to par with more recent accounts)

November 29, 2022

Enhanced

Skill extraction improved for all accounts from before 2020 (up to par with more recent accounts)

October 27, 2022

Added

Added education resources for Singapore

Enhanced

Added new diploma for French language

October 18, 2022

Added

Added support for fast reprocessing of stored CVs to add or update normalized skills. Updating an entire index is still work in progress.

Fixed

Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese

October 4, 2022

Fixed

Fixed a bug regarding empty location fields

September 29, 2022

Enhanced

Updated the profession taxonomy (Septemer-2022 release)
20 New professions added to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Various improvements to job title cleaning

Added

Various small improvements to the French professions taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong classification of building inspector and covid tester

September 21, 2022

Fixed

A bug was fixed for API integrations with Sourcebox. The bug occurred when a TMF was submitted to Sourcebox, and at the same time an empty file as a CV (or an invalid non-CV file) was also included. The fix is that we cover this case to add a "No CV" definition to the Trxml Document, which enables the TMF to be indexed in search.

August 23, 2022

Added

Output skills origin information

Enhanced

Improved country detection for fixed format CVs (e.g. LinkedIn, Indeed, etc)
Improved handling of column CVs with emails in the lower part of the page
Improved handling of Irish addresses

August 9, 2022

Enhanced

Improved classification of addresses in Luxembourg

July 28, 2022

Added

Added support for Traditional Chinese parsing and Taiwan locale.

July 10, 2022

Enhanced

Added support for Arabic skills extraction (tier 3)
Support for Hebrew skills

Fixed

Solved an issue regarding ambiguity of 'Rust' in Dutch
Improve O*NET mapping for home health aides

June 13, 2022

Enhanced

Portugese: Large improvements to parsing quality by upgrading to Deep Learning

June 2, 2022

Enhanced

LinkedIn PDF: fix rare experience parsing issues for French

May 19, 2022

Enhanced

Improvements to address and phone fields for Spanish Colombia locale

May 14, 2022

Enhanced

Added OCR support for Hebrew and Arabic documents

May 5, 2022

Fixed

Fixed missing Umlauts in Austrian locations

Enhanced

Improve handling of Norwegian addresses
Improvements to address and name fields for Portuguese Brazil locale

April 21, 2022

Enhanced

Removed trunk code from the output of phone numbers (in Data Model v2). Phone numbers are now output in international notation, e.g. +31204942496.

January 27, 2022

Enhanced

This version of Sourcebox introduces a change where alert, prompts and confirmation dialogs no longer appear as browser prompts, but instead are consistent with the rest of the look and feel of the application. This does not affect their functionality, which remains the same. This is in response to Google Chrome deprecating the usage of these functionshttps://chromestatus.com/feature/5148698084376576
Improve parsing of mixed language Chines CVs from liepin.com
Romanian: improvements to address fields

December 7, 2021

Enhanced

Various improvements to the German skills taxonomy
Added various (digital) marketing skills to the skills taxonomy
Improved skill disambiguation for multi-word terms in all languages
Improved the names of about 200 skills in the German skill taxonomy
Various improvements to Spanish and Italian translations of professions

Fixed

Fixed ambiguity issue regarding German skill 'Schreiben von Berichten'
Improved German translation of job group "Government Administrators"

November 22, 2021

Enhanced

Improved handling of column CVs for all languages
Improved country classification for Peru and better handling of Spanish date abbreviations

November 12, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Mexican regions

November 8, 2021

Enhanced

Improve splitting of Peruvian addresses
Improve handling of Mexican addresses
Significant improvements to Italian CV parsing (20-50% error reduction depending on field)

September 28, 2021

Enhanced

Better alignment of language fluency levels in German and English

August 3, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition and splitting of Chilean addresses

July 30, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of nationalities based on country codes
Improved location mapping for French overseas territories
Improved recognition of French subregions

Fixed

Fixed an issue related to subregion recognition

June 21, 2021

Enhanced

Improved extraction of LinkedIn profile links in case multiple are mentioned in the document

May 18, 2021

Fixed

Fixed issues with CV upload and editing profile when using IE11 in mobility setups.

April 12, 2021

Enhanced

Improve University Name splitting
Linkedin PDF: improved candidate location extraction
Linkedin PDF: Parsing improvements for fields that are line wrapped
LinkedIn PDF and Indeed CVs: Improved address recognition

March 22, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of "Erzieher" in German profession taxonomy

March 19, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries
Improve address fields for locations from Ireland

March 15, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

March 11, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

Fixed

Improved recognition of the country Austria in German documents

March 1, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

February 17, 2021

Added

New option to disable automatic word wrapping for input formats that support soft wrap (e.g. Microsoft Word). PDF files do not support soft wrap. When enabled, longer lines are no longer wrapped at 80 character limit. Useful for customers that build an UI to present the parsing results

December 21, 2020

Added

Added 25 ISCO and ONET mappings to the profession taxonomy

Enhanced

A small fix in the Dutch Profession Taxonomy, resolving erroneous classifications of "Montagemedewerker Brilmonturen"
Medical Affairs Manager added to profession taxonomy
Small improvements to French profession normalization

Fixed

Minor improvements to the American English profession taxonomy

December 7, 2020

Enhanced

Error severity levels have been revised and updated for the Extract SOAP API, including advice on retrying strategies for better error handling. Some error IDs have been changed. For more details, refer to the Sourcebox API Reference documentation.
Improved parsing speed and reduced timeouts for certain documents when highlighting of extracted values in the HTML rendering is enabled

November 23, 2020

Enhanced

Improved extraction of names from LinkedIn profiles
Improved detection of Indeed profiles so that those profiles are parsed with high accuracy

November 20, 2020

Fixed

Non-existing city 'Nueva York' removed from autocomplete

November 9, 2020

Enhanced

Improved country detection for Australia
Improved splitting of names for French
The highest education level is no longer derived from unfinished education items

October 26, 2020

Enhanced

Various improvements to extraction of LinkedIn profiles
Improved extraction of name from LinkedIn and Indeed profiles

September 28, 2020

Fixed

Bullhorn users were not able to import candidates from external sources.

September 25, 2020

Added

New feature for the Talentsoft Marketplace Match integration for the user can set a query term / tag as either Mandatory (Must-have) or Optional (Nice-to-have).

June 8, 2020

In the Bullhorn-native integration, de-duplication was originally designed for single-tenant environments. It has been extended to work with multi-tenant orgs so that Bullhorn BusinessUsers will only see possible duplicates according to their Departments. This does not require configuration.

May 25, 2020

Added

Added support for Taiwanese Address parsing

May 15, 2020

Added

High accuracy parsing of kariyer.net profiles (Turkey)
Parsing of Turkish, Slovenian and Croatian CVs. Documents in these languages can now also be used in Search. Semantic Search is available for Slovenian and Croatian.

Enhanced

Improved country detection for French addresses containing German city names as street name
Reduced the amount of documents going through OCR when no actual OCR was needed. As a result, parsing is faster and more accurate for these documents.

May 11, 2020

Added

Parsing of Turkish, Slovenian and Croatian CVs. Documents in these languages can now also be used in Search. Semantic Search is available for Slovenian and Croatian.

Enhanced

Improved country detection for French addresses containing German city names as street name
Reduced the amount of documents going through OCR when no actual OCR was needed. As a result, parsing is faster and more accurate for these documents.

April 24, 2020

Added

High accuracy parsing of kariyer.net profiles (Turkey)

March 30, 2020

Enhanced

Improved extraction of phone numbers and language skills from LinkedIn PDFs

March 17, 2020

Enhanced

Improved classification of language proficiency, in particular level B2.

March 4, 2020

Enhanced

Improved classification of language proficiency levels C1 and C2.

January 20, 2020

Enhanced

Improved name splitting for German and Dutch when titles like MSc, MA, BSc, BA are part of the name

January 6, 2020

Added

Initial release of the Talentsoft Match Integration. This is a plugin allowing Talentsoft users to automatically find the best Candidates starting from a Vacancy, and find the best Vacancies starting from a Candidate.