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It's trivial to convert PDFs these days to Word documents - Word actually opens PDFs as editable.

I suppose you could print out your CV and scan it into a PDF to prevent that - but then there is OCR...



I must be behind the times.

You're right of course that with OCR, and the right typefaces, it's always possible to automate the process of building an editable document from a PDF or printed page.


But I doubt anyone would take the hazzle of doing OCR. Because it is still a lot of work to spot misstakes (which still do happen, also with standardfonts).

Also, who would want to lower the perceived visual quality of his resume? And scanning a document, means just that. It will be still readable, yes, but you can see, that it was scanned in.


Because they don’t want your direct contact information in there, for one thing.




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