diff --git a/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/OcrServiceSettings.java b/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/OcrServiceSettings.java
index e1f8961..dacadd2 100644
--- a/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/OcrServiceSettings.java
+++ b/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/OcrServiceSettings.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ public class OcrServiceSettings {
 
     boolean debug; // writes the ocr layer visibly to the viewer doc pdf
     boolean drawTablesAsLines; // writes the tables to the PDF as invisible lines.
-    boolean snuggify; // Enables bold detection using ghostscript and leptonica
+    boolean snuggify = true;
     String contentFormat; // Either markdown or text. But, for whatever reason, with markdown enabled, key-values are not written by azure....
 
 }
diff --git a/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/imageprocessing/BBoxSnuggificationService.java b/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/imageprocessing/BBoxSnuggificationService.java
index 8fae568..e9827b5 100644
--- a/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/imageprocessing/BBoxSnuggificationService.java
+++ b/azure-ocr-service/azure-ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/imageprocessing/BBoxSnuggificationService.java
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ public class BBoxSnuggificationService {
     public static final int PIXEL_COUNT_THRESHOLD = 2; // minimum active pixel count per row for shrinking to stop
     private static final double AVERAGE_ANGLE_THRESHOLD = 0.2; // Skips snuggification, if the average remaining word rotation of a word, written from left-to-right is bigger than this
     public static final int INDIVIDUAL_ANGLE_THRESHOLD = 5; // skips snuggification for word, if the remaining rotation is larger than this angle
+    public static final int MAX_SHRINK_PIXELS = 40; // Number of pixels that are allowed to be removed from the top or bottom of an image
+    private static final int MINIMUM_WORD_Pixels = 5;
 
     private enum Operation {
         HORIZONTAL,
@@ -116,13 +118,13 @@ public class BBoxSnuggificationService {
         Numa colCounts = Leptonica1.pixCountPixelsByColumn(wordImage);
         int start = 0;
         int end = wordImage.w - PIXEL_COUNT_THRESHOLD;
-        for (int i = start; i < Math.min(wordImage.w, 25); i++) {
+        for (int i = start; i < Math.min(wordImage.w, MAX_SHRINK_PIXELS); i++) {
             if (pixCountPerColumn(i, colCounts) > PIXEL_COUNT_THRESHOLD) {
                 start = i;
                 break;
             }
         }
-        for (int i = end; i > Math.max(0, wordImage.w - 25); i--) {
+        for (int i = end; i > Math.max(0, wordImage.w - MAX_SHRINK_PIXELS); i--) {
             if (pixCountPerColumn(i, colCounts) > PIXEL_COUNT_THRESHOLD) {
                 end = i;
                 break;
@@ -131,7 +133,9 @@ public class BBoxSnuggificationService {
         if (start == 0 && end == wordImage.w) {
             return Optional.empty();
         }
-
+        if (Math.abs(start - end) < MINIMUM_WORD_Pixels) {
+            return Optional.empty();
+        }
         return Optional.of(new Rectangle2D.Double(origin.getX() + start, origin.getY(), origin.getWidth() - start - (wordImage.w - end), origin.getHeight()));
     }
 
@@ -140,13 +144,13 @@ public class BBoxSnuggificationService {
 
         int start = 0;
         int end = wordImage.h - 1;
-        for (int i = start; i < Math.min(wordImage.h, 25); i++) {
+        for (int i = start; i < Math.min(wordImage.h, MAX_SHRINK_PIXELS); i++) {
             if (pixCountPerRow(i, wordImage) > PIXEL_COUNT_THRESHOLD) {
                 start = i;
                 break;
             }
         }
-        for (int i = end; i > Math.max(0, wordImage.h - 25); i--) {
+        for (int i = end; i > Math.max(0, wordImage.h - MAX_SHRINK_PIXELS); i--) {
             if (pixCountPerRow(i, wordImage) > PIXEL_COUNT_THRESHOLD) {
                 end = i;
                 break;
@@ -155,6 +159,9 @@ public class BBoxSnuggificationService {
         if (start == 0 && end == wordImage.h) {
             return Optional.empty();
         }
+        if (Math.abs(start - end) < MINIMUM_WORD_Pixels) {
+            return Optional.empty();
+        }
         return Optional.of(new Rectangle2D.Double(origin.getX(), origin.getY() + start, origin.getWidth(), origin.getHeight() - start - (wordImage.h - end)));
     }