How many CVs can I do at once?

Up to 250 files in a single batch, each up to 10 MB. Larger runs are just several batches.

Does it work on scanned CVs and photos?

Yes. PNG, JPEG and WebP images and scanned PDFs go through optical character recognition before extraction, so a photograph of a printed page is read like any other document.

Can I choose the columns?

Yes, once you have an account. The single document you can try without one is simply read and handed back, so you can see whether Datanem understood the page. In an account you see the proposed columns before a batch is extracted and can rename, remove or add any of them, and saved designs are reused on later batches so you only do it once.

What happens to the CVs afterwards?

They are stored in the EU and deleted automatically after your plan's retention window, which is 30 days on Free to 365 days on Max. You can delete sooner at any time. They are never used to train models.

How much does it cost?

One CV is one document, however many pages it runs to. There are free documents to start with, then plans from £9 a month, or pay as you go at 20p per document.

Turn a folder of CVs into candidate data.

Upload a CV and see the candidate as structured fields in seconds. No account, no card.

Drop your file here.

Upload PDFs, images or documents.

No account needed to try it. No card. Your file is stored in the EU, and never used to train anything.

A CV goes in. A candidate row comes out.

CV · PDF

Priya Raman

Email: priya.raman@example.com
Location: Leeds, UK

Senior Test Engineer, Calderfield Systems2022–
Test Engineer, Brayford Instruments2018–2022
BEng Electronic Engineering, Sheffield2018

Name	Email	Location	Current role	Years
Priya Raman	priya.raman@example.com	Leeds, UK	Senior Test Engineer	8

One CV, one row, with the roles kept as their own rows underneath. Invented candidate, invented employers.

How it works

1. Upload
Add PDFs, scans, images or documents.
2. Structure
Datanem works out the columns from the page itself and turns the useful information into clean rows.
3. Use it
Download the data as a spreadsheet, or carry on working with it in Datanem.

Create an account to customise the columns and save the design for future batches.

That worked. Now make it yours.

A free account is where you choose what gets extracted, instead of taking what the first read gave you.

Choose the exact fields
Rename, remove or add columns until the table is the one you wanted, then extract against it.
Save the design and reuse it
Next month's pile goes through the same columns without designing anything again.
Process whole batches
Up to 250 files in one go, and one row per document at the end of it.
Export the finished dataset
Excel and CSV, plus SQL, JSON, JSONL and Python for anything that has to load it automatically.

Start free

20 documents to start. No card.

For recruiters

Turn a folder of CVs into a spreadsheet

Every CV says the same things in a different order. One candidate leads with a personal statement, the next with a skills grid, the third with eighteen years of work history and no email address until page two. Reading them is the job. Retyping them into a spreadsheet so you can sort by location or filter by skill is not.

Datanem reads a whole folder at once and gives you one row per candidate, with work history, education, skills and referees as their own linked tables so nothing is squashed into a single cell.

Columns you can expect

This document type has a design built in, so a run inside an account starts from these columns. You can rename, remove or add any of them and save the result for the next batch.

Full name
Email
Phone
Location
Current title
Years of experience
Skills
Right to work
Notice period
Salary expectation
Work history
Education
References

One row per candidate, not one row per file

A CV holds two different shapes of information at once. There are the facts about the person, which appear once: name, contact details, location, current title. Then there are the repeating things, which appear many times: each job, each qualification, each skill, each referee.

Flattening both into one row means either losing the repeats or gluing them together with semicolons. Datanem keeps them as linked tables instead, so you can sort the candidate list in one sheet and still filter work history or skills in another. Ask for the SQL export and you get exactly that: a candidates table with foreign keys pointing at it, ready to query.

Formats a real inbox actually contains

PDF and Word are the majority, but not the whole of it. Datanem also reads plain text, and photographs or scans of a printed CV, which is what you get when someone has posted a paper copy and it has been through the office scanner.

Accepted: PDF, DOCX, DOC, TXT, PNG, JPEG and WebP. Up to 10 MB each, and up to 250 files in one batch. A scanned CV goes through optical character recognition first, so a photo of a page is read the same as a text PDF.

In an account, you agree the columns before the batch runs

Try a single CV without an account and Datanem simply reads it, so you can see whether it understood the page. Inside an account, a batch works the other way round: the columns are shown to you first and you rename, drop or add before it touches the rest of the files, because the fields that matter to a technical contract desk are not the fields that matter to a care agency.

CVs have a design built in, so you are not starting from nothing. If a document turns out to carry something the design has no home for, such as a driving licence category or a security clearance, that is flagged rather than silently dropped, and you decide whether to add the column.

Where the data ends up

Export as Excel, with each table on its own sheet, filters on and the header row frozen. Or CSV, if it is going into an applicant tracking system. Or SQL, with primary keys, foreign keys and indexes written for you, which loads straight into SQLite, PostgreSQL or DuckDB.

Candidate CVs are personal data, so where they sit matters. Files and extracted data are stored in the EU, deleted automatically on a schedule set by your plan, and never used to train a model.

Your structured data isn't locked inside Datanem

Once it's structured, the data is yours. Take it to a spreadsheet, a database or a script.

Excel— one sheet per table, ready to open.

CSV
SQL
JSON
JSONL
Python

Where your document goes

It is stored in the EU
Uploads sit in an EU-only bucket and the database is EU-constrained. Neither leaves. Reading the document is done by a French provider whose standard endpoint does not commit to an inference location, so that step may run outside the EEA: the detail is on the security page.
It is deleted
Uploads and the data drawn from them are removed automatically after 30 days on the free plan, longer on paid plans. You can delete a job yourself at any point before that, and the file leaves storage immediately when you do.
It never trains a model
We have no training pipeline. Our extraction provider offers training as an opt-out and we have opted out, so your content is excluded.
Nothing here is a certification
We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office and the measures above are the ones actually in place. We hold no security certification and do not claim one.

Security & privacy · Privacy notice · Sub-processors · Data processing

What it costs

What can I do for free?: One document with no account at all, which is the trial at the top of this page. Create a free account and you get 20 documents to start with, then 10 a month after that, for ever. No card either way.
What uses it up?: Documents, not pages and not fields. A file of up to 10 pages counts as one document; a longer one counts as another document per 10 pages, so a 30-page statement counts as three.
What happens when the free documents run out?: Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged. Extraction stops until the monthly allowance resets, you buy credit, or you take a plan.
What is the first paid option?: Starter, at £9 a month for 150 documents. Monthly, no contract.
Is there pay as you go?: Yes. £0.20 per document with no subscription, bought from 25 upwards. Bought documents do not expire.
What are the limits on a file?: Up to 10 MB per file and up to 250 files in one batch. PDFs, Word documents, plain text and photographs; scans go through optical character recognition first.

Full pricing, including what each plan keeps and how long files are held.

Questions

How many CVs can I do at once?: Up to 250 files in a single batch, each up to 10 MB. Larger runs are just several batches.
Does it work on scanned CVs and photos?: Yes. PNG, JPEG and WebP images and scanned PDFs go through optical character recognition before extraction, so a photograph of a printed page is read like any other document.
Can I choose the columns?: Yes, once you have an account. The single document you can try without one is simply read and handed back, so you can see whether Datanem understood the page. In an account you see the proposed columns before a batch is extracted and can rename, remove or add any of them, and saved designs are reused on later batches so you only do it once.
What happens to the CVs afterwards?: They are stored in the EU and deleted automatically after your plan's retention window, which is 30 days on Free to 365 days on Max. You can delete sooner at any time. They are never used to train models.
How much does it cost?: One CV is one document, however many pages it runs to. There are free documents to start with, then plans from £9 a month, or pay as you go at 20p per document.