Find out whether applicant tracking software can read your resume PDF. Free, no account needed, and the file never leaves your browser.
The ATS checker answers one question: can software read your resume? It opens a PDF the way an applicant tracking system (ATS) does, pulls out the text, and shows you what survived and what didn’t. It works with a PDF made in any tool, not only Reactive Resume.The check runs entirely in your browser. The file isn’t uploaded or stored, and you don’t need an account.
The report has the score and issues on the left and your file on the right.
A finished check
The score. A number from 0 to 100 with a verdict: Reads cleanly (80 and above), Mostly readable (50 to 79) or Hard for software to read (below 50). It combines five categories, and a serious problem (a blocker) caps it: a PDF with no real text can’t score well because its margins are tidy. The score reflects how reliably text comes out of the file, not your chances of getting the job.The issue rows. Each category with something to fix gets a row, worst first. Open a row to see each problem in bold, followed by what to do about it. If you pasted a posting, the last row, Terms from the posting, counts the terms found (for example 4/14) and lists the missing ones.
The score, issue rows and the fix card
The five scored categories are:
Category
What it checks
Readability
Whether software can recover the words at all: a real text layer rather than a picture, fonts that map to letters, no hidden text, encryption or form fields in the way, and a sensible file and page size.
Layout
Whether the page geometry keeps the reading order: columns, tables, lines stored out of order, tight spacing, very small text and narrow margins.
Sections
Whether the resume is split into sections software expects.
Contact details
Whether a recruiter can reach you: name, email, phone and links survive intact.
Dates
Whether your timeline can be reconstructed from the dates.
Writing gives advice for the person reading your resume, such as numbers that show impact, first-person pronouns and long bullets. These tips appear in the results alongside the scored findings and never affect the score.Only the first 30 pages of a long file are checked; the report says so when that happens.
Select Fix these in the editor to import the same file into a free Reactive Resume account. The file is read in your browser, the same way the check read it, and the new resume opens in Check with the issues waiting for you.
If you’re signed in, the import starts straight away.
If you aren’t, you’re taken to create an account first. The file waits in your browser in the meantime and is imported as soon as you’re back, then removed from the browser.
To start over with a different file, select Check another file.
No tool can tell you whether an application will be rejected. That depends on the employer’s system, the screening
questions and the person reading. The checker measures one thing: how faithfully software can extract your file’s
text.
