Is there an equivalent to LaTeX's \pdfgentounicode=1 in Typst?

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In LaTeX, Jake’s Resume uses the following:

\input{glyphtounicode}

% Ensure that generate pdf is machine readable/ATS parsable
\pdfgentounicode=1

Is there an equivalent in Typst or is this done automatically already?

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Hello @rdong8 ,

Would you please explain the desired functionality and so users not familiar with LaTeX can assist?

Do you have some Typst code you can share you are working on that if causing an issue? Or is is a question on how Typst works in general?

This way you are more likely to get some help on this forum.

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I am working on a resume and want to make sure it is ATS-friendly. This setting in LaTeX is supposed to help characters in the generated PDF map to unicode for ATS software:

ToUnicode map is a concept in the PDF specification that allows mapping from character codes in a font to corresponding Unicode numbers. The purpose is to allow PDF browsers to perform properly operations related to text contents like search, cut and paste. Support for this feature was added mainly to make PDF files produced with the MinionPro package [3] searchable.

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There wasn’t any Typst code in particular that was causing problems that I am aware of, but I was wondering if it was something I should worry about, or if Typst automatically handles this process when it generates PDFs.

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Looking at the Typst issue tracker on GitHub, it seems a lot of effort has gone into using the ToUnicode map as much as possible so I think this is supported by default in Typst, though of course there can always be bugs. Let us know here (or file an issue) if you see something that doesn’t work :slight_smile:

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