It extracted one certification but silently dropped the AWS Basics Coursera 2022 certificate, so the certification coverage was incomplete on the messy resume.
What was measured
Field coverage
Are name, email, phone, experience, education, and skills extracted?
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A resume parser should extract the key canonical fields; missing them means it is not doing the main job well. (3 of 3 judges)
What was given, what came back
Test input: Messy real-world resume — John Kumar · pdf · group: resume-parsing
Input — what we sent
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Messy real-world resume — John Kumar
A poorly formatted, inconsistent real-world resume for John Kumar, used to test robustness against noisy structure, inconsistent dates, and mixed-content sections.
Why this input is hard
- · messy formatting robustness
- · section detection fallback
- · inconsistent date parsing
- · soft-skills extraction
- · noise and hallucination control
Output — unretouched
Also checked on this input — same tool, 3 other criteria
Accuracy✗ FailedIts total experience calculation overstates tenure: it returned 7.3 years even though the resume explicitly says 3 years of experience.Messy resume handling✓ WorkedThe parser handled the messy resume gracefully, still extracting the main identity, work history, education entries, skills, objective, and hobbies despite non-standard dates and raw dash-style bullets.Noise in output✗ FailedThe skills output includes hallucinated taxonomy noise, such as Business Education, that does not appear in the resume.
Provenance
- Observation
- ad0979bc-e449-450a-b06b-f5c12fa6da9b
- Evidence run
- cbbef4db-964c-49fa-a57f-a2977822bdfc
- Study
- Parse resumes into structured data using an API
- Research task
- 86b9jm30n
- Tested at
- not recorded
- Source
- first-party
- Evidence state
- verified
- Proof shown
- input + output shown
- Cost / latency
- not captured
- Repeat run
- not captured
- Tester
- not captured
The last three rows are honest blanks, not placeholders — our capture has no field for them yet.
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tool: "affinda",
scenario: "resume-parsing"
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Same input, same check — 7 other tools
measured on Field coverage
Airparser✓ WorkedCovers the six core fields even on messy formatting, including contact info, work experience, education, and skills.Extracta.ai✓ WorkedStill covers the main resume fields on the messy input: name, email, phone, experience, education, skills, and certifications.Hireability✗ FailedOnly the B.E. education entry was extracted; the visible 12th and 10th entries were omitted from the parsed output.HrFlow✓ WorkedEven on the messy resume, it still returns the standard contact, experience, education, and technical-skills sections.LlamaParse✓ WorkedThe messy-resume output included the core fields and additional sections: name, contact information, objective, work experience, education, skills, certifications, hobbies, and references.Parseur⚠ StruggledOnly one education record was extracted, and the 12th Science and 10th std entries were omitted from the output.Skima AI✓ WorkedEven on the messy resume, the parser still returned the core coverage set of name, email, phone, work experience, education, and skills.
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