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ATS Friendly Plain Text Resume Converter

For job seekers pasting a resume into online application forms that mangle formatting. You get clean plain text with simple hyphen bullets that you can copy or download as a .txt file.

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How to use

How to use the ATS Plain Text Resume Converter

  1. Copy your resume text from Word or a PDF and paste it into the box.
  2. Click Clean it.
  3. Check the ATS-safe output box.
  4. Click Copy, or Download .txt to save it as resume-ats-safe.txt.
Worked example

An example, step by step

You enter

Text copied from Word with round bullet symbols, curly quotes, long dashes, tab-aligned dates and several blank lines in a row.

The tool shows

The output uses plain hyphen bullets, straight quotes and simple hyphens, replaces tabs and double spaces with single spaces and keeps at most one blank line between sections.

FAQ

Questions about the ATS Plain Text Resume Converter

What makes a resume ATS friendly in plain text?

Simple hyphen bullets, straight quotes, no tabs or column spacing and no special symbols. This tool converts those characters for you.

Should I upload a .txt resume instead of a PDF?

Use the format the employer asks for. The plain text version is most useful for pasting into application forms and text boxes.

Does the converter change my wording?

No. It only replaces special characters and cleans spacing, the words stay exactly as you wrote them.

Is the ATS Plain Text Resume Converter free and private?

Yes. It is free, needs no sign-up and runs entirely in your browser, so what you type is not uploaded. You only sign in if you want to email a result to yourself or save it to your CareerByteCode profile.