diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2e288dac0..74511a5e2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ### Features
 
 ### Fixes
+- **fix a bug where table extraction is skipped when it shouldn't**. Pages with just one table as its content or starts with a table misses table extraction. The routing logic is now fixed.
 
 ## 0.16.18-dev1
 
diff --git a/example-docs/pdf/single_table.pdf b/example-docs/pdf/single_table.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55fdf336a
Binary files /dev/null and b/example-docs/pdf/single_table.pdf differ
diff --git a/test_unstructured/partition/pdf_image/test_ocr.py b/test_unstructured/partition/pdf_image/test_ocr.py
index 28fa0493c..76d0e94a3 100644
--- a/test_unstructured/partition/pdf_image/test_ocr.py
+++ b/test_unstructured/partition/pdf_image/test_ocr.py
@@ -16,9 +16,13 @@ from unstructured_inference.inference.layoutelement import (
     LayoutElements,
 )
 
+from test_unstructured.unit_utils import example_doc_path
 from unstructured.documents.elements import ElementType
 from unstructured.partition.pdf_image import ocr
-from unstructured.partition.pdf_image.pdf_image_utils import pad_element_bboxes
+from unstructured.partition.pdf_image.pdf_image_utils import (
+    convert_pdf_to_images,
+    pad_element_bboxes,
+)
 from unstructured.partition.utils.config import env_config
 from unstructured.partition.utils.constants import (
     Source,
@@ -436,6 +440,28 @@ def mock_ocr_layout():
     )
 
 
+def test_supplement_element_with_table_extraction():
+    from unstructured_inference.models import tables
+
+    tables.load_agent()
+
+    image = next(convert_pdf_to_images(example_doc_path("pdf/single_table.pdf")))
+    elements = LayoutElements(
+        element_coords=np.array([[215.00109863, 731.89996338, 1470.07739258, 972.83129883]]),
+        texts=np.array(["foo"]),
+        sources=np.array(["yolox_sg"]),
+        element_class_ids=np.array([0]),
+        element_class_id_map={0: "Table"},
+    )
+    supplemented = ocr.supplement_element_with_table_extraction(
+        elements=elements,
+        image=image,
+        tables_agent=tables.tables_agent,
+        ocr_agent=ocr.OCRAgent.get_agent(language="eng"),
+    )
+    assert supplemented.text_as_html[0].startswith("<table>")
+
+
 def test_get_table_tokens(mock_ocr_layout):
     with patch.object(OCRAgentTesseract, "get_layout_from_image", return_value=mock_ocr_layout):
         ocr_agent = OCRAgent.get_agent(language="eng")
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py b/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py
index eb3a82714..9e139af52 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/pdf_image/ocr.py
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ def supplement_element_with_table_extraction(
     from unstructured_inference.models.tables import cells_to_html
 
     table_id = {v: k for k, v in elements.element_class_id_map.items()}.get(ElementType.TABLE)
-    if not table_id:
+    if table_id is None:
         # no table found in this page
         return elements