# Pymupdf4llm.to\_markdown 1.28 creates unexpected columns that break the text

**URL:** <https://forum.mupdf.com/t/pymupdf4llm-to-markdown-1-28-creates-unexpected-columns-that-break-the-text/360>\
**Category:** PyMuPDF\
**Created:** [August 4, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.mupdf.com/t/pymupdf4llm-to-markdown-1-28-creates-unexpected-columns-that-break-the-text/360 "2026-08-04T00:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![ikseek](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forum.mupdf.com/ikseek/32/415_2.png) [@ikseek](https://forum.mupdf.com/u/ikseek)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.mupdf.com/t/pymupdf4llm-to-markdown-1-28-creates-unexpected-columns-that-break-the-text/360/1 "2026-08-04T00:25:31Z")

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Hello pymupdf support!

Here is a small pdf that produces this output when I run `pymupdf4llm.to_markdown("repro_layout_split.pdf")`

```markdown
=== Document parser messages ===
Using Tesseract for OCR processing.

| **Sentence** ||| **Status** | **Date** |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy d<br>dog again.|og and then the quick bro|wn fox jumped over the lazy|Pending|01/02/2024|
|The five boxing wizards jump quickly|||Done|01/02/2024|
| **Item** | **Category** | **Source** |||
|Widget assembly kit, large size|Hardware|Sheet 2|||
|Sprocket set, metric|Hardware|Sheet 3|||

```

Is there a way to keep the text `The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog and then the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog again.` from being broken?

[repro\_layout\_split.pdf](https://forum.mupdf.com/uploads/short-url/yKL6qSIT9IHiwQH0GH2Fvni11S0.pdf) (9.0 KB)

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**Author:** ![HaraldLieder](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forum.mupdf.com/haraldlieder/32/14_2.png) [@HaraldLieder](https://forum.mupdf.com/u/HaraldLieder)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.mupdf.com/t/pymupdf4llm-to-markdown-1-28-creates-unexpected-columns-that-break-the-text/360/2 "2026-08-04T14:34:20Z")

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This is the output under the coming release 1.28.1 - scheduled for next weekend or shortly thereafter:  
[test.md](https://forum.mupdf.com/uploads/short-url/pypACtANccJOi7cdUlo2gnq2bg6.md) (394 Bytes)