diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5c20934af..1c8534143 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## 0.13.4-dev4
 
 ### Enhancements
+
 * **Unique and deterministic hash IDs for elements** Element IDs produced by any partitioning
   function are now deterministic and unique at the document level by default. Before, hashes were
   based only on text; however, they now also take into account the element's sequence number on a
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@
 
 ### Features
 
+* **Add a `PDF_ANNOTATION_THRESHOLD` environment variable to control the capture of embedded links in `partition_pdf()` for `fast` strategy**.
 * **Add integration with the Google Cloud Vision API**. Adds a third OCR provider, alongside Tesseract and Paddle: the Google Cloud Vision API.
 
 ### Fixes
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/pdf.py b/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
index 5b4ae8c55..01b0c9804 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ from unstructured.partition.pdf_image.pdfminer_utils import (
 )
 from unstructured.partition.strategies import determine_pdf_or_image_strategy, validate_strategy
 from unstructured.partition.text import element_from_text
+from unstructured.partition.utils.config import env_config
 from unstructured.partition.utils.constants import (
     SORT_MODE_BASIC,
     SORT_MODE_DONT,
@@ -705,7 +706,7 @@ def _process_pdfminer_pages(
     languages: List[str],
     metadata_last_modified: Optional[str],
     sort_mode: str = SORT_MODE_XY_CUT,
-    annotation_threshold: Optional[float] = 0.9,
+    annotation_threshold: Optional[float] = env_config.PDF_ANNOTATION_THRESHOLD,
     starting_page_number: int = 1,
     **kwargs,
 ):
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py b/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py
index 93f3f9590..28eade91d 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/utils/config.py
@@ -109,5 +109,13 @@ class ENVConfig:
         """threshold to consider the bounding boxes of two embedded images as the same region"""
         return self._get_float("EMBEDDED_IMAGE_SAME_REGION_THRESHOLD", 0.6)
 
+    @property
+    def PDF_ANNOTATION_THRESHOLD(self) -> float:
+        """The threshold value (between 0.0 and 1.0) that determines the minimum overlap required
+        for an annotation to be considered within the element.
+        """
+
+        return self._get_float("PDF_ANNOTATION_THRESHOLD", 0.9)
+
 
 env_config = ENVConfig()