diff --git a/docs/setup.rst b/docs/setup.rst
index 1ca9a6ed3..24a9b9fa2 100644
--- a/docs/setup.rst
+++ b/docs/setup.rst
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@ Standard (Bare Metal)
       passphrase from the environment, so if you don't set it to a static value
       here, you must set ``PAPERLESS_PASSPHRASE=some-secret-string`` on the
       command line whenever invoking the consumer or webserver.
+    * ``OCR_THREADS``: this is the number of threads the OCR process will spawn
+      to process document pages in parallel. The default value gets sourced from
+      the environment-variable ``PAPERLESS_OCR_THREADS`` and expects it to be an
+      integer. If the variable is not set, Python determines the core-count of
+      your CPU and uses that value.
 4. Initialise the database with ``./manage.py migrate``.
 5. Create a user for your Paperless instance with
    ``./manage.py createsuperuser``. Follow the prompts to create your user.
diff --git a/src/documents/consumer.py b/src/documents/consumer.py
index 8a7729ffb..c432ee261 100644
--- a/src/documents/consumer.py
+++ b/src/documents/consumer.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class Consumer(object):
     SCRATCH = settings.SCRATCH_DIR
     CONVERT = settings.CONVERT_BINARY
     CONSUME = settings.CONSUMPTION_DIR
-    THREADS = settings.OCR_THREADS
+    THREADS = int(settings.OCR_THREADS) if settings.OCR_THREADS else None
 
     OCR = pyocr.get_available_tools()[0]
     DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE = settings.OCR_LANGUAGE
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ class Consumer(object):
 
         return sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(self.SCRATCH, "{}*".format(i))))
 
-    def _guess_language(self, text):
+    @staticmethod
+    def _guess_language(text):
         try:
             guess = langdetect.detect(text)
             Log.debug(
@@ -148,8 +149,9 @@ class Consumer(object):
                 Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
             )
             return guess
-        except Exception:
-            return None
+        except Exception as e:
+            Log.warning(
+                "Language detection error: {}".format(e), Log.COMPONENT_MAIL)
 
     def _get_ocr(self, pngs):
         """
@@ -157,9 +159,15 @@ class Consumer(object):
         simple language detection trial & error.
         """
 
+        if not pngs:
+            raise OCRError
+
         Log.debug("OCRing the document", Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
 
-        raw_text = self._ocr(pngs, self.DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE)
+        # Since the division gets rounded down by int, this calculation works
+        # for every edge-case, i.e. 1
+        middle = int(len(pngs) / 2)
+        raw_text = self._ocr([pngs[middle]], self.DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE)
 
         guessed_language = self._guess_language(raw_text)
 
@@ -171,10 +179,12 @@ class Consumer(object):
                     "with what we have.",
                     Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
                 )
+                raw_text = self._assemble_ocr_sections(pngs, middle, raw_text)
                 return raw_text
             raise OCRError
 
         if ISO639[guessed_language] == self.DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE:
+            raw_text = self._assemble_ocr_sections(pngs, middle, raw_text)
             return raw_text
 
         try:
@@ -188,14 +198,27 @@ class Consumer(object):
                     ),
                     Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER
                 )
+                raw_text = self._assemble_ocr_sections(pngs, middle, raw_text)
                 return raw_text
             raise OCRError
 
+    def _assemble_ocr_sections(self, pngs, middle, text):
+        """
+        Given a `middle` value and the text that middle page represents, we OCR
+        the remainder of the document and return the whole thing.
+        """
+        text = self._ocr(pngs[:middle], self.DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE) + text
+        text += self._ocr(pngs[middle+1:], self.DEFAULT_OCR_LANGUAGE)
+        return text
+
     def _ocr(self, pngs, lang):
         """
         Performs a single OCR attempt.
         """
 
+        if not pngs:
+            return ""
+
         Log.debug("Parsing for {}".format(lang), Log.COMPONENT_CONSUMER)
 
         with Pool(processes=self.THREADS) as pool:
diff --git a/src/logger/models.py b/src/logger/models.py
index e301b5ada..2e22ec931 100644
--- a/src/logger/models.py
+++ b/src/logger/models.py
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ class Log(models.Model):
     level = models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=LEVELS, default=LEVEL_INFO)
     component = models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=COMPONENTS)
 
+    class Meta(object):
+        ordering = ("time",)
+
     @classmethod
     def error(cls, message, component):
         cls.objects.create(