Still covers the main resume fields on the messy input: name, email, phone, experience, education, skills, and certifications.
What was measured
Field coverage
Are name, email, phone, experience, education, and skills extracted?
decisive for this rankingtransformation
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
Also checked on this input — same tool, 5 other criteria
Accuracy◐ MixedPreserves the education marks text verbatim, including the unnormalised '72 percent marks' value instead of converting it to a cleaner percentage format.Accuracy◐ MixedReturns both certification names in lowercase exactly as written, with no capitalization normalisation applied.Messy resume handling✓ WorkedHandles the noisy, inconsistent layout without crashing and still extracts the main sections.Noise in output⚠ StruggledEmits a blank Languages item when the resume has no languages section, leaving an empty placeholder instead of omitting the field.Output quality✓ WorkedProduces a usable JSON result even on the messy resume, with the important sections still readable and structured.
Provenance
- Observation
- d85153f5-b16a-4009-9e33-65440ad1a387
- 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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get_evidence({
tool: "extracta-labs",
scenario: "resume-parsing"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
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Same input, same check — 7 other tools
measured on Field coverage
Affinda◐ MixedIt extracted one certification but silently dropped the AWS Basics Coursera 2022 certificate, so the certification coverage was incomplete on the messy resume.Airparser✓ WorkedCovers the six core fields even on messy formatting, including contact info, work experience, education, and skills.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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