Checking what was extracted
The CV Comparison Tool highlights text in the original document that did not make it into the formatted output, so you can spot omissions before sending a CV.
RemakeCV's CV Comparison Tool shows the original CV side by side with the formatted output, highlighting anything that did not carry across. It is a one-glance confidence check before a CV goes to a client — particularly useful on scanned and design-heavy source documents — and corrections are made in the editor alongside it.
What does it show?
The original document, with highlighting over any text that does not appear in the formatted output. It answers one question quickly: did anything get dropped?
That matters because a wrong date is visible at a glance, whereas a paragraph you have never seen is not. Comparing against the source closes that gap in seconds, and gives you something to stand behind when the CV goes to a client.
The comparison view is for reviewing rather than editing: select and copy text freely, and make any changes in the editor alongside it, where every field is available.
How should I read the highlights?
Not every highlight is a problem. Text is legitimately dropped when it is page furniture rather than content.
| Highlighted | Usually means |
|---|---|
| A bullet point or paragraph of real content | Genuine omission — add it in the editor |
| A section heading you expected to see | The section may not have been recognised |
| Page numbers, headers, footers | Normal — deliberately not carried over |
| Decorative or template text from the candidate's design | Normal |
| Scattered fragments across a scanned CV | OCR differences, not necessarily omissions |
The workflow is: scan the highlights, ignore the furniture, and act on anything that is substantive content.
Why are scanned CVs noisier?
On an image-based CV the comparison runs against OCR-recognised text rather than a clean text layer, so small character-level differences register as mismatches even where the content did make it into the output. Expect more highlights and weight them more loosely.
See scanned PDFs and OCR.
What do I do about a real omission?
Add it in the editor
Faster than reprocessing for one or two missing items. See reviewing and editing.
Reprocess if a whole section is missing
Free, and a second pass sometimes resolves an ambiguous layout differently. See the formatted CV looks wrong.
Report a recurring pattern
If the same kind of content is dropped across many CVs, that is something we can fix in the pipeline. Email support@remakecv.com with the source file.
When is it worth using?
Every time on a scanned CV, and whenever a candidate is going to an important client. On a clean single-column Word CV the extraction is reliable enough that a normal read-through of the editor is usually sufficient.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I edit or mark text in the comparison view?
- The comparison view is for reviewing; corrections are made in the editor alongside it, where every field is editable. You can select and copy text from the comparison view as you go.
- Does a highlight always mean something is wrong?
- No. Page furniture, headers, footers and decorative text are legitimately dropped. Highlights are a prompt to look, not a defect list.
- Why are there more highlights on a scanned CV?
- The comparison runs against OCR-recognised text, which introduces small differences that read as mismatches even when the content did make it across.
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