Actually we don't have issues parsing PDF but rather downstream some old ATS are not very good at parsing PDF (particularly MS technology based ones that we pus

Actually we don't have issues parsing PDF but rather downstream some old ATS are not very good at parsing PDF (particularly MS technology based ones that we push to). The other issue with PDF is that some cheap PDF conversion tools will just turn into an image and thus characters are lost. Most apply processes allow you do paste your resume as text and attach. I recommend doing both.