diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 416ef54472..0602cbc04a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
+* **Turn off XML resolve entities** Sets `resolve_entities=False` for XML parsing with `lxml`
+  to avoid text being dynamically injected into the XML document.
 * **Add backward compatibility for the deprecated pdf_infer_table_structure parameter**.
 * **Add the missing `form_extraction_skip_tables` argument to the `partition_pdf_or_image` call**.
-* **Turn off XML resolve entities** Sets `resolve_entities=False` for XML parsing with `lxml`
   to avoid text being dynamically injected into the XML document.
 * **Chromadb change from Add to Upsert using element_id to make idempotent**
+* **Diable `table_as_cells` output by default** to reduce overhead in partition; now `table_as_cells` is only produced when the env `EXTACT_TABLE_AS_CELLS` is `true`
 * **Reduce excessive logging** Change per page ocr info level logging into detail level trace logging
 * **Replace try block in `document_to_element_list` for handling HTMLDocument** Use `getattr(element, "type", "")` to get the `type` attribute of an element when it exists. This is more explicit way to handle the special case for HTML documents and prevents other types of attribute error from being silenced by the try block
 
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diff --git a/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py b/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py
index e4017fc4dc..ed8740bba5 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ def supplement_element_with_table_extraction(
     """Supplement the existing layout with table extraction. Any Table elements
     that are extracted will have a metadata fields "text_as_html" where
     the table's text content is rendered into a html string and "table_as_cells"
-    with the raw table cells output from table agent
+    with the raw table cells output from table agent if env_config.EXTRACT_TABLE_AS_CELLS is True
     """
     from unstructured_inference.models.tables import cells_to_html
 
@@ -279,13 +279,15 @@ def supplement_element_with_table_extraction(
         tatr_cells = tables_agent.predict(
             cropped_image, ocr_tokens=table_tokens, result_format="cells"
         )
-        text_as_html = cells_to_html(tatr_cells)
-        simple_table_cells = [
-            SimpleTableCell.from_table_transformer_cell(cell).to_dict() for cell in tatr_cells
-        ]
 
+        text_as_html = cells_to_html(tatr_cells)
         element.text_as_html = text_as_html
-        element.table_as_cells = simple_table_cells
+
+        if env_config.EXTRACT_TABLE_AS_CELLS:
+            simple_table_cells = [
+                SimpleTableCell.from_table_transformer_cell(cell).to_dict() for cell in tatr_cells
+            ]
+            element.table_as_cells = simple_table_cells
 
     return elements
 
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py b/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py
index f2b75e8026..270f94bfc1 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ def EXTRACT_IMAGE_BLOCK_CROP_VERTICAL_PAD(self) -> int:
         """
         return self._get_int("EXTRACT_IMAGE_BLOCK_CROP_VERTICAL_PAD", 0)
 
+    @property
+    def EXTRACT_TABLE_AS_CELLS(self) -> bool:
+        """adds `table_as_cells` to a Table element's metadata when it is True"""
+        return self._get_bool("EXTRACT_TABLE_AS_CELLS", False)
+
     @property
     def OCR_LAYOUT_SUBREGION_THRESHOLD(self) -> float:
         """threshold to determine if an OCR region is a sub-region of a given block