diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/pdfinfo/layout.py b/src/ocrmypdf/pdfinfo/layout.py
index 9eb8306a..98bd82e0 100644
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/pdfinfo/layout.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/pdfinfo/layout.py
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ class TextPositionTracker(PDFLayoutAnalyzer):
 def get_page_analysis(infile, pageno, pscript5_mode):
     rman = pdfminer.pdfinterp.PDFResourceManager(caching=True)
     dev = TextPositionTracker(
-        rman, laparams=LAParams(all_texts=True, detect_vertical=True)
+        rman, laparams=LAParams(all_texts=True, detect_vertical=True, boxes_flow=None)
     )
     interp = pdfminer.pdfinterp.PDFPageInterpreter(rman, dev)