Free · 14 run in your browser · 5 with a free account
Free tools for recruiters
Blind, brand, merge and convert candidate documents in seconds. 19 tools, all free.
- 14 run in your browser, nothing uploaded
- Most need no sign-up
- Works instantly
CV anonymiser
Remove the name, contact details, photo, date of birth and nationality from a PDF or Word CV.
Anonymise a CVCV and submission tools
Getting a candidate in front of a client: blind the CV, brand it, protect it, add a cover sheet and send one clean pack.
- CV anonymiserRemove the name, contact details, photo, date of birth and nationality from a PDF or Word CV.PDF or Word Blind CV
- Add agency header to CVPut your agency name, contact line and logo in the header and footer of every page of a CV PDF.PDF Branded PDF
- Watermark a CVStamp "Confidential: submitted by your agency" across every page of a CV PDF.PDF Watermarked PDF
- Merge CV PDFsBuild one candidate submission pack: cover note, CV, assessment and references in one PDF.PDFs One PDF
- Submission cover pageAdd a branded front sheet with candidate, role, agency and date to a CV PDF.PDF PDF with cover
- Extract text from a CVPull the plain text out of a CV PDF to paste into an ATS, a job spec or an email.PDF Plain text
- Merge Word documentsCombine candidate profiles or a submission pack into one Word document.Word files One Word file
PDF tools
Upload limits, CV books, scans of right-to-work documents and headshots.
- Compress a CV PDFShrink a scanned or photo-heavy CV PDF to get under an ATS, job board or email upload limit.PDF Smaller PDF
- Split a CV bookSplit a bulk CV book or multi-candidate PDF into one file per candidate.PDF Separate PDFs
- PDF to imagesTurn CV or profile pages into PNG or JPEG images for LinkedIn posts or client portals.PDF PNG or JPEG
- Images to PDFCombine photos or scans of IDs, certificates and right-to-work documents into one PDF.Images One PDF
- Compress an imageShrink candidate headshots and agency logos for templates, job boards and email.Image Smaller image
Spreadsheet tools
Candidate trackers and ATS exports, between Excel and CSV.
Convert Office files
PDF to Word, and Word, PowerPoint or Excel to PDF. These need a full office layout engine, so they run on our servers with a free Formatix account.
- PDF to WordFree accountTurn a PDF CV or document into an editable Word file, with the layout kept as closely as the PDF allows.PDF Word
- Word to PDFFree accountTurn a Word CV, profile or letter into a PDF that looks the same on every screen.Word PDF
- PowerPoint to PDFFree accountTurn a shortlist deck or candidate presentation into a PDF you can email or upload.PowerPoint PDF
- Excel to PDFFree accountTurn a candidate tracker or longlist into a PDF a client can read without Excel.Excel PDF
- Remove a PDF passwordFree accountUnlock a password-protected PDF you know the password for, so it opens without asking.Locked PDF Unlocked PDF
See how it works
Free document tools
PDF and Word tools, and a blind CV, free and in one place.
Free recruitment templates
Blind profiles, candidate one-pagers, shortlist decks and assessment reports: see a finished example of each in the template library, in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF.
Browse the template libraryFormat CVs into your own template automatically
The tools above fix one file at a time. Formatix takes any CV, in any layout or language, and rebuilds it in your agency's own branded template in about 30 seconds, anonymised if you want it to be. Your first 10 CVs are free, no card needed.
Try Formatix freeWhy these run in your browser
Small document jobs that come up every day on a desk: blinding a CV before it goes to a client, putting your agency's name on it, watermarking it, building one submission pack out of four PDFs, getting a scan under a job board's upload limit. Fourteen of these tools need no account and run entirely in your browser: the file is opened by JavaScript in your own tab and handed back as a download, and nothing is uploaded, because there is no server to upload it to. Five more, the Office conversions (PDF to Word, and Word, PowerPoint or Excel to PDF) and unlocking a password-protected PDF, need a full office engine, so they run on our servers with a free Formatix account. Each tool page says which kind it is. They are built for agency consultants, resourcers and executive search teams handling candidate data they have promised to look after.
Open source: github.com/OpenRecruiterTools/recruiter-tools (MIT).
Questions recruiters ask
- Are these recruiter tools really free?
- Yes. The fourteen browser tools need no login, have no file limit and add no watermark of ours; they cost us nothing to run because your own browser does the work. The five Office conversions are free too, with a free Formatix account (work email, no card), and they do not use formatting credits.
- Is it safe to put candidate CVs into these tools?
- With the browser tools, the files never leave your computer: each tool is a page of JavaScript that opens the file in your tab, changes it there and hands it back as a download. The Office conversions are different: the file is sent to Formatix, converted on our servers and sent straight back as a download, with nothing stored; the file does travel to our server, so use them for documents you are comfortable uploading.
- Who makes the tools?
- Formatix, the CV formatting platform for recruitment agencies. The tools are ported from recruiter-tools, our open-source project on GitHub (MIT licence), so the code that handles your file is public and can be audited.
- Why do PDF to Word and Office to PDF need an account?
- Rebuilding Word paragraphs, tables and styles from a PDF, or laying out a Word, PowerPoint or Excel file as a PDF the way Office would, needs a real office layout engine that a browser does not have. Those five tools run on our servers, and a free account lets us keep them fair and protected from abuse.