From ce98019b49d96110c7b1da4595dfcfb0c21916f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt <frozenpoint@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:08:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing error sentinel for pdftotext when the PDF has no text
 (scanned images). It was causing a crash previously.

---
 src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

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)