diff --git a/samples/bugs/Issue494.pdf b/samples/bugs/Issue494.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7c4bfbd4
Binary files /dev/null and b/samples/bugs/Issue494.pdf differ
diff --git a/src/Smalot/PdfParser/Config.php b/src/Smalot/PdfParser/Config.php
index 8bd1624e..e732030d 100644
--- a/src/Smalot/PdfParser/Config.php
+++ b/src/Smalot/PdfParser/Config.php
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ class Config
 {
     private $fontSpaceLimit = -50;
 
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    private $horizontalOffset = ' ';
+
     /**
      * Represents: (NUL, HT, LF, FF, CR, SP)
      *
@@ -78,6 +83,16 @@ public function setFontSpaceLimit($value)
         $this->fontSpaceLimit = $value;
     }
 
+    public function getHorizontalOffset(): string
+    {
+        return $this->horizontalOffset;
+    }
+
+    public function setHorizontalOffset($value): void
+    {
+        $this->horizontalOffset = $value;
+    }
+
     public function getPdfWhitespaces(): string
     {
         return $this->pdfWhitespaces;
diff --git a/src/Smalot/PdfParser/PDFObject.php b/src/Smalot/PdfParser/PDFObject.php
index 2bce9ce6..fdab1363 100644
--- a/src/Smalot/PdfParser/PDFObject.php
+++ b/src/Smalot/PdfParser/PDFObject.php
@@ -280,8 +280,7 @@ public function getText(?Page $page = null): string
                                 $current_position_td['x']
                             )
                         ) {
-                            // horizontal offset
-                            $text .= ' ';
+                            $text .= $this->config->getHorizontalOffset();
                         }
                         $current_position_td = ['x' => $x, 'y' => $y];
                         break;
diff --git a/tests/Integration/ConfigTest.php b/tests/Integration/ConfigTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2eda4242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Integration/ConfigTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file This file is part of the PdfParser library.
+ *
+ * @author  Konrad Abicht <k.abicht@gmail.com>
+ * @date    2020-06-01
+ *
+ * @author  Sébastien MALOT <sebastien@malot.fr>
+ * @date    2017-01-03
+ *
+ * @license LGPLv3
+ * @url     <https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser>
+ *
+ *  PdfParser is a pdf library written in PHP, extraction oriented.
+ *  Copyright (C) 2017 - Sébastien MALOT <sebastien@malot.fr>
+ *
+ *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ *  along with this program.
+ *  If not, see <http://www.pdfparser.org/sites/default/LICENSE.txt>.
+ */
+
+namespace Tests\Smalot\PdfParser\Integration;
+
+use Smalot\PdfParser\Config;
+use Tests\Smalot\PdfParser\TestCase;
+
+class ConfigTest extends TestCase
+{
+    public function testHorizontalOffset()
+    {
+        $filename = $this->rootDir.'/samples/bugs/Issue494.pdf';
+
+        $config = new Config();
+        $config->setHorizontalOffset('');
+
+        $parser = $this->getParserInstance($config);
+        $document = $parser->parseFile($filename);
+        $text = $document->getText();
+
+        $reference = '11 ADET DERGİ İÇİN 3 KALEM HİZMET ALIMI İHALE EDİLECEKTİR ';
+        $firstLine = explode("\n", $text)[0];
+        $this->assertEquals($reference, $firstLine);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/TestCase.php b/tests/TestCase.php
index a4bdca2e..fa5f51f9 100644
--- a/tests/TestCase.php
+++ b/tests/TestCase.php
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 namespace Tests\Smalot\PdfParser;
 
 use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase as PHPTestCase;
+use Smalot\PdfParser\Config;
 use Smalot\PdfParser\Document;
 use Smalot\PdfParser\Element;
 use Smalot\PdfParser\Parser;
@@ -63,8 +64,8 @@ protected function getElementInstance($value)
         return new Element($value);
     }
 
-    protected function getParserInstance()
+    protected function getParserInstance(?Config $config = null)
     {
-        return new Parser();
+        return new Parser([], $config);
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Unit/ConfigTest.php b/tests/Unit/ConfigTest.php
index 0b0ef77f..e2419294 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/ConfigTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/ConfigTest.php
@@ -52,6 +52,17 @@ public function testFontSpaceLimitSetterGetter()
         $this->assertEquals(1, $this->fixture->getFontSpaceLimit());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Tests setter and getter for horizontal offset.
+     */
+    public function testHorizontalOffsetSetterGetter()
+    {
+        $this->assertEquals(' ', $this->fixture->getHorizontalOffset());
+
+        $this->fixture->setHorizontalOffset('	');
+        $this->assertEquals('	', $this->fixture->getHorizontalOffset());
+    }
+
     /**
      * Tests setter and getter for retaining of raw image data.
      */