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You can send your resume as a flat PDF to avoid this problem.

• claytonjy 6y ago
  Is it really that easy? I see no mention of _how_ the author sent their materials, but a directly-generated PDF is just as easy to search as a word doc, isn't it? Does gmail explicitly only inspect the latter?
  • snapetom 6y ago
    Unless the PDF is generated as one big image, making it a tad bit harder for google to scan, yes, PDFs are easily parsable. There's a ton of open source libraries out there for it.
  • victor9000 6y ago
    Yes, it's that easy. Print your document as an image/flat pdf and you won't run into the issues described in the article. If your text editor doesn't support flattening then export the doc as pdf, open the pdf in chrome, go to the print menu, and select "Print as image". You'll know you've done it correctly if you can't select text in the new pdf.