Entrovix AI

ATS Resume Checker

Reads your actual PDF in the browser and finds the structural faults that break applicant tracking systems — two-column layouts, text in page headers, contact details locked inside an image — the very things that pasting plain text into other checkers repairs before anything can be measured.

Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Your resume

Drop your resume here

A PDF, as you would send it. Nothing is uploaded.

Why the file, not pasted text

The faults that break applicant tracking systems are structural — columns, headers, text inside images. Pasting your resume as plain text destroys exactly that evidence, because pasting is the parsing step that failed.

Your file never leaves this device. The whole operation runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, queued on a server, or deleted later, because nothing was ever sent.

ATS readiness

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Why use it

Built to be genuinely useful

Reads the real file

The check runs on the PDF's positioned text — coordinates, width, font size — not on a copy you retyped, so the faults are still present when they are counted.

Weighted by real cost

A two-column layout costs 25 points and a missing summary heading a fraction of that, because one loses the whole document and the other loses a label.

Nothing is uploaded

The file is parsed inside the page, so your resume and your contact details never reach a server.

A fix for every issue

Each finding says what a parser does with it and what to change in your original document, rather than reporting that a rule failed.

How it works

Three steps

  1. 1

    Open the exact PDF you send to employers, not a retyped or re-exported copy.

  2. 2

    Work down the report from critical to note — the top items are worth more than everything below them combined.

  3. 3

    Rebuild the layout in your original document, export a fresh PDF and run it again.

Why pasted text hides the fault

Most free ATS checkers ask you to paste your resume into a box. By then the hard part is already done — you copied the text in the right order, by hand. The sidebar that a parser would interleave with your job history arrives tidy, and the checker grades a version of your resume that no employer will ever receive.

This tool opens the PDF itself and pulls out every text run with its coordinates, width and font size, using pdf.js. That is the same raw material an applicant tracking system starts from, so a layout fault that would scramble your document in a real parse shows up here as a finding instead of quietly disappearing.

If the file yields almost no text, that is itself the answer: the resume was exported as a picture, from a design tool or a scanner, and the system will index it as a blank document. A checker fed pasted text can never tell you this, because you supplied the words the file does not contain.

The faults that cost you the interview

Columns are the expensive one. The detector sweeps candidate split lines across the middle half of the page and looks for a vertical corridor of whitespace with at least a fifth of the text on each side and under four per cent crossing it. Ordinary single-column body text crosses the middle constantly, so a real sidebar is unmistakable and the report names it “Two-column layout detected”.

Text in the top or bottom six per cent of the page is treated as a header or footer, and several major parsers drop that region entirely. It is a favourite place for a phone number. Contact details drawn inside a logo or banner fail the same way: no email pattern in the text means no email in your candidate record.

Headings are the quiet one. A parser files content by matching a heading it recognises, so “Where I've Made an Impact” reads beautifully and files nothing — eight years of work land in no section at all. Keep the personality in your bullet points and make the headings boring: Work Experience, Skills, Education.

Reading the score

The weights are the point. A file that extracts as an image loses 45 points, a two-column layout 25, a missing email address 15, and a bullet that opens with a passive phrase 2. Checkers that weight every rule equally hand an 82 per cent to a resume that will not parse at all.

Eighty and above is graded “strong”, 55 to 79 “fair”, and below that “weak”. Treat the number as a queue rather than a grade: clear everything marked critical, then the warnings, and leave the notes until the structure is sound. Going from 61 to 88 by cutting a sidebar changes what a recruiter sees; adding keywords does not.

There is a free way to verify the result. Most large Indian employers run Workday, Taleo, SuccessFactors or Naukri's own parser, and their portals show you an auto-filled application form after you upload. Whatever is missing or scrambled in that form is exactly what the system stored, and it should line up with the issues listed here.

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