diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/PdfBoxContentTransformer.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/PdfBoxContentTransformer.java
index 72ecef9308..08e3b4df12 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/PdfBoxContentTransformer.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/PdfBoxContentTransformer.java
@@ -19,8 +19,12 @@
 package org.alfresco.repo.content.transform;
 
 import org.alfresco.repo.content.MimetypeMap;
+import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.TransformationOptions;
+import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParserConfig;
 
 /**
  * Uses {@link http://tika.apache.org/ Apache Tika} and
@@ -32,6 +36,8 @@ import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser;
  */
 public class PdfBoxContentTransformer extends TikaPoweredContentTransformer
 {
+    protected PDFParserConfig pdfParserConfig;
+    
     public PdfBoxContentTransformer() {
        super(new String[] {
              MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_PDF
@@ -42,4 +48,28 @@ public class PdfBoxContentTransformer extends TikaPoweredContentTransformer
     protected Parser getParser() {
        return new PDFParser();
     }
+    
+    /**
+     * Sets the PDFParserConfig for inclusion in the ParseContext sent to the PDFBox parser,
+     * useful for setting config like spacingTolerance.
+     * 
+     * @param pdfParserConfig
+     */
+    public void setPdfParserConfig(PDFParserConfig pdfParserConfig)
+    {
+        this.pdfParserConfig = pdfParserConfig;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    protected ParseContext buildParseContext(Metadata metadata, String targetMimeType, TransformationOptions options)
+    {
+        ParseContext context = super.buildParseContext(metadata, targetMimeType, options);
+        if (pdfParserConfig != null)
+        {
+            System.out.println("**** spacingTolerance=" + pdfParserConfig.getSpacingTolerance() + ", averageCharTolerance=" + pdfParserConfig.getAverageCharTolerance());
+            context.set(PDFParserConfig.class, pdfParserConfig);
+        }
+        // TODO: Possibly extend TransformationOptions to allow for per-transform PDFParserConfig?
+        return context;
+    }
 }