🧠 AI Resume Builder

AI Resume Builder is an open-source project that uses AI + LaTeX to transform your existing resume into a clean, job-optimized, ATS-friendly PDF using a customizable LaTeX template.

This was developed as part of the IBM SkillsBuild AI Agentic Internship, with a focus on intelligent automation, AI integration, and professional document enhancement using LaTeX and Gemini.

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🚀 Features

• 📄 Upload your resume (PDF or DOCX)
• 🧠 Uses Google Gemini API to enhance your resume based on job description
• 📘 Custom LaTeX template with structured formatting
• 📤 Automatically compiles to PDF using pdflatex
• 🌐 Simple Flask-based web interface
• 💡 AI-powered rewriting, ATS optimization, hyperlink handling, and section prioritization

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🏗️ Project Structure

AI-Resume-Builder/
├── static/               # Static files like CSS
├── templates/            # HTML templates (Flask frontend)
├── uploads/              # Uploaded resumes & generated PDFs
├── template.tex          # LaTeX resume template
├── codehack_phantoms.py  # Flask backend server
├── setup.py              # Python venv & pip install script
└── .env                  # Gemini API key configuration

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📦 Requirements

• Windows 10/11 with WSL enabled
• Python 3.11+
• LaTeX (via TeX Live on Ubuntu through WSL)
• Google Gemini API Key

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⚙️ Installation Guide

🪟 Step 1: Enable WSL and Install Ubuntu on Windows

1. Open PowerShell as Administrator and run:

wsl --install -d Ubuntu

This installs WSL and Ubuntu. Restart your PC if prompted.

2. After restart, launch Ubuntu and create a UNIX username/password.

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🐧 Step 2: Install LaTeX and Dependencies in Ubuntu (WSL)

Open your WSL (Ubuntu) terminal by command:

wsl

and run:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-font-utils python3-venv python3-pip

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📁 Step 3: Clone the Repository and Set Up Environment

git config --global core.filemode false

git clone https://github.com/0xmoh1t/AI-Resume-Builder.git
cd AI-Resume-Builder
python3 setup.py

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🔐 Step 4: Configure Gemini API Key

Create a .env file in the root directory with this content:

GEMINI_API_KEY=your_google_api_key_here

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🧲 Run the App

Either this:

wsl
source venv/bin/activate
python3 codehack_phantoms.py

or this:

wsl
venv\\Scripts\\Activate
python3 codehack_phantoms.py

Open your browser at: http://localhost:5000

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🧠 How It Works

1. Upload your resume (PDF or DOCX)
2. Paste your target job description
3. Gemini rewrites and adapts your resume using LaTeX
4. PDF gets compiled automatically with pdflatex
5. Download your enhanced, job-ready resume!

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🧰 Tech Stack

Component	Technology
Backend	Python, Flask
Frontend	HTML, CSS (Flask templates)
AI	Google Gemini API
PDF Output	LaTeX + pdfTeX (pdflatex)

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👨‍💼 Contributors

Name	GitHub Handle
Mohit	@0xmoh1t
Hardik	@HardikIsACoder
Moulik	@MOULIKGANDHI03

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📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions!

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a feature branch (git checkout -b my-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m "Add feature")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request 🚀