I agree that what you said is more reasonable but most jobs are not for technical people. Even somewhat technical graphics designers might go over the top and c

I agree that what you said is more reasonable but most jobs are not for technical people. Even somewhat technical graphics designers might go over the top and craft a visually appealing resume and use a picture format. Why blame anyone for this? Just use OCR where possible. If the application instructions specify a text resume sure. Having a picture resume in a .docx makes little sense but a PDF is both an image and text format. Not to mention a lot of people design their resume or have someone else make it and print it for them and scan it when applying for jobs as an image pdf. Shit happens. Tech is supposed to make life easier not harder, despite of humans' failures not because humans arr cooperative enough right?