diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformer.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformer.java
index 34c2c9d25d..e1e499bcb3 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformer.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformer.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import org.apache.tika.metadata.Metadata;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;
 import org.apache.tika.sax.BodyContentHandler;
+import org.apache.tika.sax.ExpandedTitleContentHandler;
 import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
 
 /**
@@ -135,6 +136,7 @@ public abstract class TikaPoweredContentTransformer extends AbstractContentTrans
        if(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_HTML.equals(targetMimeType))
        {
           handler.getTransformer().setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "html");
+          return new ExpandedTitleContentHandler(handler);
        }
        else if(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_XHTML.equals(targetMimeType) ||
                MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_XML.equals(targetMimeType))
diff --git a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformerTest.java b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformerTest.java
index 9751807049..d03fcd421a 100644
--- a/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformerTest.java
+++ b/source/java/org/alfresco/repo/content/transform/TikaPoweredContentTransformerTest.java
@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ public abstract class TikaPoweredContentTransformerTest extends AbstractContentT
                "HTML footer not found",
                contents.contains("</html>")
          );
+         assertTrue(
+               "Expanded HTML title not found",
+               contents.contains("</title>")
+         );
       }
       else if(targetMimetype.equals(MimetypeMap.MIMETYPE_TEXT_PLAIN))
       {