Reading order
Shows when sidebars, columns, tables, or positioned PDF text appear in the wrong sequence.
Resume parser test
See what the hiring system can actually read.
Drop in a PDF, DOCX, TXT, or Markdown resume. ATS Readback shows the exact extracted text, the order it appears in, layout risks, recovered contact details, and explicit job-description terms.
No upload
No account
No AI score
Open source
Run the readback
Check the saved file, not the design preview.
Runs in this browser
Drop your resume here
or choose a PDF, DOCX, TXT, or Markdown file
Maximum 100 MB. The file never leaves this page.
No file ready?
Reading the fileExtracting text, order, structure, and contact details.
Result
Text recovered in stored order
Read this from top to bottom. Missing, duplicated, or interleaved content is the actual problem.
Compare with geometric top-to-bottom reconstruction
What this catches
A resume can look correct and still parse badly.
ATS Readback tests the actual file structure. It does not grade typography, sell rewritten bullets, or hide the method behind a score.
Missing content
Flags image-only files, broken font encoding, text boxes, headers, footers, and sparse extraction.
Contact details
Confirms whether email, phone, LinkedIn, and other links survive the parser.
Job evidence
Lists explicit terms found and missing using documented lexical matching—not a hiring prediction.
The boundary
There is no universal ATS score.
Hiring systems use different parsers, configurations, and workflows. This tool gives you auditable evidence: exact recovered text, structural indicators, and a documented coverage method.
Read the methodologyCommon questions
Use the result correctly.
Does a green result guarantee every ATS will parse my resume?
No. It means the enabled checks recovered coherent text in this parser. Every hiring system can behave differently.
Does my resume get uploaded?
No. The public site is static, has no backend or analytics, and its browser policy blocks network connections. Processing happens in a dedicated browser worker.
Why not give one ATS score?
A single score implies precision that does not exist. ATS Readback reports observable facts and shows how job-term coverage was calculated.
Should I use PDF or DOCX?
Use the format requested by the employer. For either format, inspect the saved file and confirm that names, dates, headings, and bullets appear in the right order.