diff --git a/seeddms/srv/seeddms/conf/settings.xml b/seeddms/srv/seeddms/conf/settings.xml
index 679285d..900693a 100644
--- a/seeddms/srv/seeddms/conf/settings.xml
+++ b/seeddms/srv/seeddms/conf/settings.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         <notification enableNotificationAppRev="true" enableOwnerNotification="false" enableNotificationWorkflow="false"/>
         <server coreDir="" luceneClassDir="" contentOffsetDir="1048576" maxDirID="0" updateNotifyTime="86400" extraPath="/srv/seeddms/pear" cmdTimeout="30" maxExecutionTime="900"/>
         <converters target="fulltext">
-            <converter mimeType="application/pdf">pdftotext -enc UTF-8 -nopgbrk %s -'</converter>
+            <converter mimeType="application/pdf">pdftotext -enc UTF-8 -nopgbrk %s -</converter>
             <converter mimeType="text/rtf">unoconv -d document -f txt --stdout %s</converter>
             <converter mimeType="application/msword">unoconv -d document -f txt --stdout %s</converter>
             <converter mimeType="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text">unoconv -d document -f txt --stdout %s</converter>