Resume → plain text,
the way ATS wants it
Paste your resume or upload the PDF. Bullets, quotes, tabs, columns, page numbers and icons are cleaned into ATS-safe text — your wording untouched. Copy it into the form or download the .txt.
How it works
Paste or upload
Paste the resume text from Word, Google Docs or a chat — or upload the PDF and we extract the text.
Formatting is normalized
Bullets become "- ", curly quotes and long dashes become plain ASCII, tabs and column gaps collapse to single spaces, page numbers and icon-font glyphs are removed.
Copy or download
Paste the result into the application form, or save it as resume-plain-text.txt for systems that want a text file.
What gets cleaned
What ATS text boxes actually choke on
Tabs from two-column layouts, "•" and "▪" bullets that turn into "?" or squares, curly quotes, icon fonts for phone/email, and "Page 1 of 2" footers pasted mid-sentence.
Wording is never changed
This is a formatting cleaner, not a rewriter. Every word, number and date stays exactly as you wrote it — only the characters around them change.
Nothing leaves your browser
Pasted text is cleaned locally. If you upload a PDF, the text is extracted on our server and not stored.
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When do I need a plain-text resume?▾
When an application form has a "paste your resume" box, when an ATS (Workday, Taleo, iCIMS, Greenhouse…) asks for a .txt upload, when you send your resume in the body of an email, or when a recruiter's system mangles your PDF.
Does it keep my section headings?▾
Yes. Lines are kept in order; headings stay on their own line. If your PDF was two-column, check the order once — column text can interleave in any PDF extractor, and you can fix it in the editable result box.
Will accented names like "José" or "Müller" survive?▾
Yes. Only typographic characters (quotes, dashes, bullets, icons, emoji, tabs) are changed; letters with accents and non-Latin scripts are left alone.
Is it free? Do I need an account?▾
Free, no account. PDF extraction has a daily per-IP limit; pasting text has no limit at all because it never calls our server.
I also want a nicely formatted version.▾
Use the AI Resume Formatter to turn the same text into a templated resume you can export as PDF or Word — free, no sign-up.