jinja2-latex-resume

Good luck getting 94+ ATS score resumes in minutes! 🚀

This project generates professional, highly customizable resumes with Python, Jinja2 templating, LaTeX, and automatic PDF export. Effortlessly create data-driven, beautiful CVs with modern, automated workflows.

In simple terms:

➡️ You upload a json (relatively easy structure to latex) with your professional details
➡️ This project uses the existing template .tex (latex file converted to jinja2 template)
➡️ Renders a .tex file with your details
➡️ Compiles to a beautiful PDF resume.

What problem does it solve?

➡️ Creating a professional resume from scratch in LaTeX can be time-consuming, you copy paste sections that you want to use for your new resume in no time.

➡️ It's free of cost, open-source, and highly customizable. You can tweak the LaTeX template to your liking. (I will add more templates soon too 😎)

➡️ You can create an automated workflow to generate resumes for multiple roles/job descriptions by just changing the input json. (With the help of LLMs, you can even generate the json automatically from your existing resume!) - LLMs often restructure PDFs poorly, so json is a better (and cheaper) format to work with.

Example Usage:

Given that you already have a resume json file named resume-jim-halpert.json, you can generate a PDF resume by running the following command:

python render_resume.py --resume-json resume-jim-halpert.json --output-pdf jim-halpert.pdf

Or, using uv:

uv run render_resume.py --resume-json resume-jim-halpert.json --output-pdf jim-halpert.pdf

Check out the generated PDF resume: jim-halpert.pdf

More examples of input JSON, and output PDF here: examples/

🎉 Resume Preview 🎉

Coming up soon:

• more templates 🥳
• better documentation
• tested report for windows devices (currently only tested on linux - windows setup code is LLM generated but untested)

Usage Guide & Generating Resume JSON for the first time

• I generally go to this site: docstrange.nanonets.com -> Upload existing resume PDF -> Export as flat JSON file and download it.

• Then I use this prompt: here to convert the flat JSON/plain text/markdown to the required resume JSON format.

• Finally I tweak the generated JSON to add/remove sections as per my requirement.

• Run the render_resume.py script to generate the PDF resume.

⚠️ Still working on it. ⚠️