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I'm saying have an invisible blob in the PDF that wouldn't print out, but would still be in the metadata.

I don't think "humans" look at raw text dumps of PDFs do they? I mean, I don't know, when I've interviewed people I only looked at the rendered output. The goal would be to full the robots; for the visible text I would be complete honest.

Again, I never actually did it.

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I get the trick, I am just disputing that you have any deniability if caught.

As to the text dumping -I have no idea. I could believe some of the HR screening tools select all text and dump into some structured fields for review. Probably not, and the trick will go completely undetected.

What if you add your text back on white, but outside of your PDF bounds? Some software (I know Adobe Illustrator has it for sure) allow you to design it so, that the visible part would be one, and everything outside the bounds would be in the document, but isn’t visible neither to a person, nor to the printer. The software would see it. I bet it should work, and I think I’ll try that when I’m at the job hunt myself.

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