📝 Cover Letter Generator

When I was applying to lots of internships in my freshmen year of school, I was frustrated with having to create a unique cover letter for each company I applied to. Tired of the manual labor, I decided to automate the whole process so it works in a single button click. This project automates the generation of personalized cover letters by filling in a customizable PDF template with job-specific information.

📌 Features

• Extracts text from a PDF cover letter template
• Replaces placeholder variables with user-defined values
• Cleans and formats the resulting text
• Exports the final version as a new PDF

📂 File Structure

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├── main.py               # Main script to generate cover letters
├── CL_TEMPLATE_3.pdf     # Your cover letter template (edit path in code)
├── /Companies/           # Folder where output PDFs are saved

🔧 Technologies Used

• Python 3
• pdfminer.six — for extracting text from PDF
• fpdf — for writing the final PDF
• re — for text formatting and cleanup

🛠️ How It Works

1. Define the job-specific variables in the main() function.
2. Extract the template text from CL_TEMPLATE_3.pdf.
3. Replace placeholders (e.g., [Company Name], [Position Name], etc.) with the actual values.
4. Clean the text formatting and structure.
5. Generate a new PDF and save it to a Companies directory with a company-specific filename.

✍️ Placeholders Supported

These must exist in your PDF template:

• [Position Name]
• [Company Name]
• [Specific Company Value]
• [Company Address]
• [Industry/Field]
• [Hiring Manager]
• [myName]
• [myEmail]
• [myNumber]

🚀 How to Run

1. Install dependencies:

   pip install pdfminer.six
   pip install fpdf

2. Adjust the variables and file paths in main.py:

   • Make sure templatePath points to your PDF template.
   • Make sure outputPath points to a valid save location.

3. Run the script:

   python main.py

4. The output PDF will be saved in the Companies/ folder with a filename like Google ._CoverLetter.pdf.

📌 Example Use Case

This tool is great for students or professionals who are applying to multiple companies and want to speed up the process of customizing cover letters.