⌈Readout⌋

See the exact plain text a resume parser pulls out of your file, and where your layout scrambles it.

● Parsed in your browser. Never uploaded.

PDF or DOCX · up to 10 MB

Drop your resume. See what the robot actually reads.

Your columns and tables look fine to you. To an applicant tracking system they can come apart into word salad. This shows you the raw text stream, with the damage marked on your own layout.

Why isn't my resume passing ATS?

Usually it is not your experience. It is your file. An applicant tracking system does not look at a resume the way you do: it flattens the whole document into one stream of text, reads that stream in whatever order the file emits it, and hands the result to a keyword matcher. Your layout is gone before anyone scores you.

That is harmless for a plain single-column resume. It goes wrong when the template gets clever. A two-column layout only survives if the file writes the left column out in full before it starts the right one. Plenty of templates instead write line by line across both, so the parser reads straight across the gutter and your job title lands next to the other column's dates. Tables split labels from their values the same way. A resume exported as an image parses to nothing at all.

None of that is visible on the page, which is why silence after forty applications is so hard to debug. Readout shows you the stream itself, then marks the places on your own layout where it broke.

Questions

Is this an ATS resume checker with no email?

Yes. No email field, no account, no upsell at the end. Readout is a resume checker without signup because there is nothing to sign up to: it is a static page, and the parsing happens in JavaScript that is already running in your tab.

Where does my resume get uploaded?

Nowhere. pdf.js and mammoth.js run in your browser, so the file never leaves your machine. Open your network tab, drop a resume in, and watch: nothing fires. It also keeps working with your wifi switched off, which is the quickest way to prove the claim rather than trust it.

Why is there no score out of 100?

Because it would be invented. Hundreds of ATS vendors each parse a little differently, so a single number implies a precision nobody actually has. The extracted text is checkable instead: read it and see for yourself whether your job title survived.

Are two-column resume templates safe?

Some are. The look is not the problem, the emission order is. Readout counts how often the parse hops between your columns. One hop means the file writes each column as a block and it reads correctly. A hop on nearly every line means it is scrambling. Drop yours in and you will know which one you have.

My resume looks fine. Is it worth checking?

That is the case most worth checking. A file that looks perfect and parses to word salad is the exact failure this tool exists to catch, and the one you cannot spot by looking at the page.