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Any freeware to autofill job application templates from various employers with your CV data?

Preferably without having to send your data to the cloud or anywhere.

I assume it must use a basic AI technology or a local LLM but the vocabulary in job templates is literally very small hence would not justify to send your CV data to the cloud or the software company's servers.

I checked Is there software that can fill PDF forms? but it must be before the development of AI LLMs.

ergon
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If you have a template and separate PDF CVs, you can combine the documents with PDF Arranger.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pdfarranger

Open the template with PDF Arranger.

Add the CV pages as new pages.

Or if the form template has fields with pdftk you can try to fill them automatically.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pdftk

Create a file datos.fdf for each CV.

With the following command you should merge them:

pdftk template.pdf fill_form datos.fdf output cv_completo.pdf flatten

Save the result to a new PDF file.

kyodake
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If all job forms are different and without a dedicated AI tool for this, you can still automate part of the process using AutoKey, a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11.

With Autokey, you can define keyboard shortcuts for phrases or paragraphs, so that you don't need to type all of this again each time for every single form. Still, you'll need to go to each field to type the shortcut to fill it.

Ventolinmono
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