DOCX files outperformed PDFs for clean text extraction in 6 out of 8 enterprise ATS platforms in a 2026 QuickCV test, upending years of standard advice.
Applicant tracking systems convert every resume into flat text before analyzing content, discarding visual formatting in the process. When that conversion fails, your keywords become irrelevant because the parser never maps them to the right fields.
Enhancv’s templates average 96.7% parse accuracy on Indeed’s ATS, according to independent testing of 15 platforms conducted earlier this year. A properly formatted Google Doc lands somewhere around 90%. That 6.
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