diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index c90c9f020..43c898df5 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -235,6 +235,6 @@ def get_text_from_pdf(pdf_file):
         try:
             pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)
         except pdftotext.Error:
-            return False
+            return ""
 
     return "\n".join(pdf)