# Cleaner PDF text extraction reduces post-processing

> PDF extraction now includes a sanitize_content option (default: True) to normalize fragmented text by collapsing excessive whitespace.

- Published: 2026-02-19
- Author: Agno Team
- Category: Changelog
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PDF extraction now includes a `sanitize_content` option (default: True) to normalize fragmented text by collapsing excessive whitespace. By improving the default output quality, you’ll spend less time cleaning documents and deliver more reliable retrieval and analysis downstream.

Details:

- New parameter: `sanitize_content=True` by default
- Disable when exact layout/spacing must be preserved for specialized parsing
- No breaking changes; review behavior if you depend on raw spacing in existing pipelines