diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index c2db5a056..fd7077834 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ class RasterisedDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
                 self.CONVERT,
                 "-scale", "500x5000",
                 "-alpha", "remove",
+                "-strip", "-trim",
                 "{}[0]".format(self.document_path),
                 out_path
             )
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@ class RasterisedDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
                 self.CONVERT,
                 "-scale", "500x5000",
                 "-alpha", "remove",
+                "-strip", "-trim",
                 gs_out_path,
                 out_path
             )