🤖 Resume AI Assistant

An AI-powered Resume Assistant that allows users to upload a PDF resume and ask natural language questions about its contents. The application extracts text from the uploaded resume, stores it in a MySQL database, and uses Google's Gemini AI to generate context-aware answers based only on the uploaded resume.

🚀 Live Demo

Frontend: https://resume-ai-assistant-tan.vercel.app/

Backend: https://resume-ai-assistant-backend.onrender.com/

📌 Features

• Upload resume in PDF format
• Ask questions about your resume using AI
• AI answers only from the uploaded resume
• Stores resume information in MySQL
• Saves chat history for every uploaded resume
• Responsive React + Tailwind CSS interface
• Fully deployed using cloud services

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🏗️ Architecture

React + Tailwind CSS (Vercel)
            │
            ▼
 Flask REST API (Render)
            │
      ┌─────┴────────┐
      ▼              ▼
 Gemini AI      Aiven MySQL

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend

• React
• Vite
• Tailwind CSS
• Axios

Backend

• Python
• Flask
• Flask-CORS
• PyMuPDF

AI

• Google Gemini API

Database

• MySQL
• Aiven Cloud MySQL

Deployment

• Vercel
• Render

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📂 Project Structure

Resume-AI-Assistant/
│
├── frontend/
│   ├── src/
│   ├── public/
│   └── package.json
│
├── backend/
│   ├── app.py
│   ├── database.py
│   ├── gemini.py
│   ├── resume_parser.py
│   ├── uploads/
│   └── requirements.txt
│
└── README.md

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⚙️ Installation

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Vaishnavi10706/Resume-AI-Assistant.git
cd Resume-AI-Assistant

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Backend Setup

cd backend

python -m venv venv

# Windows
venv\Scripts\activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a .env file inside the backend folder:

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_USER=your_username
DB_PASSWORD=your_password
DB_NAME=resume_ai_assistant
DB_SSL=false

GEMINI_API_KEY=your_api_key

Run the backend:

python app.py

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Frontend Setup

cd frontend

npm install

npm run dev

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📌 API Endpoints

Upload Resume

POST /upload

Uploads a PDF resume and stores the extracted text.

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Ask Question

POST /ask

Example Request

{
    "question":"Tell me about my projects."
}

Example Response

{
    "answer":"You have worked on..."
}

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📸 Screenshots

Example:

• Home Page
• Resume Upload
• AI Chat
• Chat History

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🔮 Future Improvements

• User Authentication
• Multiple Resume Support
• Resume Analysis & Suggestions
• AI Resume Score
• Interview Question Generator
• Export Chat as PDF
• Dark Mode
• Voice Assistant
• Docker Support

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👩‍💻 Author

Vaishnavi

GitHub: https://github.com/Vaishnavi10706

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⭐ Support

If you found this project helpful, consider giving it a ⭐ on GitHub.