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How Manatal reads your resume

Manatal is unusual in this registry for two reasons: it publishes its documentation as plain pages anyone can read without an account, and it wrote its own parser instead of licensing one of the three engines most of its competitors share. That second point matters more than it sounds, because it means nothing you learn about how other systems read a resume transfers here.

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Will Manatal read your file?

Your file
Size
ManatalNo limit published

Manatal publishes no size limit for the application upload, so there is no number to check 1.5 MB against.

Made by
Manatal
Parser
Manatal (in-house)
Accepts
PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF
ATSPrep exports
PDF accepted, DOCX accepted

Source: Manatal Documentation, resumes data import

What Manatal pulls out, and what gets lost.

Your file goes in, Manatal fills the fields it recognises, and the line underneath types what its own documentation says goes missing on the way.

What Manatal accepts, with sources.

Every line below links to the page it came from. Where Manatal does not publish a detail, this guide leaves it out rather than guessing.

Accepted file types

PDFDOCDOCXRTF
Source: Manatal Documentation, resumes data import · checked Jul 30, 2026

Size limits

Manatal does not publish a size limit for resume uploads.

Source: Manatal Documentation, resumes data import · checked Jul 30, 2026

Parsing engine

Manatal (in-house). Manatal describes the engine as its own parsing AI agent rather than naming a third-party vendor. Nothing you know about how a licensed engine behaves carries over, and Manatal is the only system here that shares its parser with nothing else.

Source: Manatal Documentation, AI resume parsing · checked Jul 30, 2026

Form autofill

Manatal documents that a resume is read the moment it is added to a profile, and that the extracted data builds the candidate record: name, contact details, location, languages, nationalities, full work history with dates, skills and education.

Manatal does not document a step where the applicant reviews what the parser understood. The correction happens on the recruiter's side, against the original file.

Source: Manatal Documentation, AI resume parsing · checked Jul 30, 2026

What ATSPrep exports, and whether Manatal takes it

This is computed at build time by comparing our export formats to Manatal's published list. It is not written by hand, so it cannot drift out of date.

  • PDFATSPrep exportAccepted by Manatal
  • DOCXATSPrep exportAccepted by Manatal

Manatal takes both, so the choice is yours. PDF or DOCX: a simple rule for picking

What trips people up on Manatal

  1. Four formats, and the list is genuinely short

    PDF, DOC, DOCX and RTF. There is no plain text, no ODT and no HTML, so several of the fallbacks that work elsewhere in this registry have nowhere to go here. A resume that is already a PDF or a DOCX has nothing to worry about; anything else needs converting before it will be taken at all.

    Source: Manatal Documentation, resumes data import · checked Jul 30, 2026

  2. The parser is Manatal's own, and shared with nothing

    Most applicant tracking systems license their parsing, which is why behaviour clusters. Fix a resume for one product on a given engine and you have fixed it for every other product on that engine. Manatal built its own, so it sits outside every one of those clusters. It is the one system here where a fix cannot be reasoned about from a neighbour.

    Source: Manatal Documentation, AI resume parsing · checked Jul 30, 2026

  3. Recruiters can open the file you actually sent

    Manatal keeps what it calls the original resume (the unaltered file exactly as uploaded) and gives recruiters a button to open it alongside the parsed profile. Layout is therefore not purely a parsing concern here: a design that reads badly as extracted text can still be judged as a document, and a design that looks impressive can still fail to populate the fields the recruiter searches on.

    Source: Manatal Documentation, view original resumes · checked Jul 30, 2026

  4. No published size limit

    Manatal's documentation does not state a maximum file size for a resume anywhere we could find. That is recorded here as an absence rather than as permission. An undocumented limit is not the same as no limit, and the sensible assumption is still the conservative one.

  5. The resume field is on the form by default

    Manatal's career page application forms ship with full name, resume, cover letter, phone and email already present. The resume is not an optional extra an employer has to add, which means the parsed profile is the default route into the database rather than a supplement to a form you filled in by hand.

    Source: Manatal Documentation, advanced career page application forms · checked Jul 30, 2026

Formatting for Manatal

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  • Both are on the accepted list and both are formats you can check the text layer of before sending. RTF is accepted too, but it buys nothing a DOCX does not already give you.

  • TXT is absent from every accepted list Manatal publishes. If a submission is failing, converting down to plain text is the one move that cannot help.

  • Because recruiters can open the original file, both readings happen. The text has to survive the parser and the page has to hold up to a human. Neither one on its own is enough here.

  • Manatal lists job title, employer, start and end dates among the fields it extracts into structured history. A layout that hides any of those in a sidebar or a header is removing a field the recruiter later filters on.

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Manatal and your resume

What file formats does Manatal accept for a resume?
PDF, DOC, DOCX and RTF. Manatal states this in its documentation for resume imports. Plain text, ODT and HTML are not on the list.
Does Manatal parse resumes automatically?
Yes. Manatal documents that its parsing agent reads a resume the moment it is added to a profile and builds a structured candidate record from it, including contact details, work history with dates, skills and education.
Which parser does Manatal use?
Its own. Manatal describes the engine as its own parsing AI agent and does not name a third-party vendor, which makes it the only system in this guide whose behaviour cannot be inferred from another product sharing the same engine.
What is the file size limit for a Manatal resume?
Manatal does not publish one. This guide records that as an unknown rather than filling it with a number from somewhere else. But an undocumented limit is not the same as no limit, so a lean text-based file is still the safer choice.
Do recruiters see my original resume or just the parsed text?
Both. Manatal keeps the unaltered file as uploaded and gives recruiters an action to open it next to the parsed profile, so your layout is seen as well as your extracted text.

How the rest of them read a resume

Start from an example that Manatal can read.

Each one is a single-column document, scored by the same checks the Studio runs.