We created a fake language to root out resume liars

Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by arethuza on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:09AM (#26409702)

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...

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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @05:21AM (#26409765)

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.

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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by hutzlibu on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @07:33AM (#26410558)

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.

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Re:We created a fake language to root out resume liars by emodendroket on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @08:52AM (#26411183)

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

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