diff --git a/card.php b/card.php
index 2fa5530..8ab5d19 100644
--- a/card.php
+++ b/card.php
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ if ($action === 'scan_belege' && $user->hasRight('mahnung', 'write')) {
 				if ($pdftotextAvailable) {
 					// Erst normales pdftotext versuchen
 					$cmd = 'pdftotext -layout '.escapeshellarg($file['fullname']).' - 2>/dev/null';
-					$text = trim((string) @shell_exec($cmd));
+					$text = trim((string) @shell_exec($cmd), " \t\n\r\0\x0B\x0C");
 
 					// Kein Text? → OCR via ocrmypdf (Bild-PDF lesbar machen)
 					if ($text === '') {