The scannable Simple Resume is formatted to be easily scanned and processed by optical character recognition (OCR) software to assist with job applications. It uses a basic resume format with black text on white paper, a 12-point common font, one to two pages, and keywords from past work descriptions. Organizations often use OCR to reduce costs and improve accuracy when processing large volumes of resumes. The simple resume focuses on keywords that may be used in database searches to help get the resume selected from others.