diff --git a/backend/onyx/connectors/models.py b/backend/onyx/connectors/models.py
index c1e88f9a8..bd3e9aee5 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/connectors/models.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/connectors/models.py
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ class DocumentBase(BaseModel):
                 attributes.append(k + INDEX_SEPARATOR + v)
         return attributes
 
-    def get_content(self) -> str:
-        return " ".join([section.text for section in self.sections])
+    def get_text_content(self) -> str:
+        return " ".join([section.text for section in self.sections if section.text])
 
 
 class Document(DocumentBase):
diff --git a/backend/onyx/indexing/chunker.py b/backend/onyx/indexing/chunker.py
index faeb8a9cb..2448c5733 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/indexing/chunker.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/indexing/chunker.py
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ class Chunker:
         single_chunk_fits = True
         doc_token_count = 0
         if self.enable_contextual_rag:
-            doc_content = document.get_content()
+            doc_content = document.get_text_content()
             tokenized_doc = self.tokenizer.tokenize(doc_content)
             doc_token_count = len(tokenized_doc)