diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/opencdmp/filetransformer/docx/service/wordfiletransformer/word/HtmlToWorldBuilder.java b/core/src/main/java/org/opencdmp/filetransformer/docx/service/wordfiletransformer/word/HtmlToWorldBuilder.java
index c77f851..ab4d917 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/opencdmp/filetransformer/docx/service/wordfiletransformer/word/HtmlToWorldBuilder.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/opencdmp/filetransformer/docx/service/wordfiletransformer/word/HtmlToWorldBuilder.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package org.opencdmp.filetransformer.docx.service.wordfiletransformer.word;
 
 import org.apache.poi.xwpf.usermodel.*;
 import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlCursor;
+import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Document;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.Node;
 import org.jsoup.nodes.TextNode;
@@ -61,6 +62,10 @@ public class HtmlToWorldBuilder implements NodeVisitor {
 
     @Override
     public void head(Node node, int i) {
+
+        String htmlToPlainText = Jsoup.parse(node.outerHtml()).text();
+        if (htmlToPlainText.trim().isEmpty()) return;
+
         String name = node.nodeName();
         if (name.equals("#text")) {
             String text = ((TextNode)node).text();