diff --git a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts
index d7f2480..d6c22ea 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.spec.ts
@@ -859,6 +859,15 @@ describe("parsePolicy / ANA driver's policy (licencia)", () => {
     expect(parsePolicy(tripled).drivers).toHaveLength(1);
   });
 
+  it("splits the phone off the name even without the printed column gap", () => {
+    // The phone shares the name cell, and the only thing marking it off is
+    // white space — which the OCR seam is free to collapse. Depending on the
+    // gap surviving is what put "PAMELA DENISE WAGONER Ph.3102001538" in the
+    // insured field, where it matched no customer.
+    const collapsed = page(ANA_LICENCIA.text.replace(/ {2,}/g, " "));
+    expect(parsePolicy(collapsed).insuredName).toBe("PAMELA DENISE WAGONER");
+  });
+
   it("drops the four empty driver slots", () => {
     // Slots 2-5 print an empty NAME and a bare "NONE" licence.
     expect(p.drivers.map((d) => d.fullName)).toEqual(["PAMELA DENISE WAGONER"]);
diff --git a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts
index 72f1416..d0e024b 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/policy-ocr/parsers/policy-parser.ts
@@ -727,13 +727,22 @@ function parseGmxEspecificacion(page: OcrPage): ParsedPolicy {
  * value in a right-hand column, so a two-line risk location comes back as the
  * label line plus a continuation line indented to the same column. A blank
  * line always terminates the cell.
+ *
+ * The line budget is a guard, not the layout: the longest cell on this
+ * document wraps once. It exists because "walk until the cell ends" is only
+ * as good as the blank line it walks to, and when the OCR seam stopped
+ * emitting those, this returned the whole first page as the insured's name —
+ * a failure with no bad value to notice, just one enormous good one.
  */
+const ESPEC_MAX_WRAP = 3;
+
 function espectBlock(lines: string[], label: RegExp): string | null {
   for (let i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
     const m = lines[i].match(label);
     if (!m?.[1]) continue;
     const parts = [m[1]];
-    for (let j = i + 1; j < lines.length && lines[j].trim(); j++) {
+    const until = Math.min(lines.length, i + 1 + ESPEC_MAX_WRAP);
+    for (let j = i + 1; j < until && lines[j].trim(); j++) {
       parts.push(lines[j].trim());
     }
     const value = parts.join(" ").replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
@@ -1889,7 +1898,12 @@ function parseAnaDrivers(lines: string[]): ParsedDriver[] {
     const raw = scope[at].match(/^\s*\d\.\s*NAME\s*:\s*(.*)$/i)?.[1]?.trim() ?? "";
     if (!raw) return;
 
-    const phoneAt = raw.match(/\s{2,}Ph\.?\s*([\d()\s.-]{7,})\s*$/i);
+    // One space is enough to split on: the "Ph." marker plus seven digits at
+    // the end of the cell is not something a name does. Requiring the printed
+    // column gap made this depend on the reassembler keeping it, and when that
+    // collapsed the phone rode into `insuredName` ("PAMELA DENISE WAGONER
+    // Ph.3102001538") and no customer matched it.
+    const phoneAt = raw.match(/\s+Ph\.?\s*([\d()\s.-]{7,})\s*$/i);
     const fullName = (phoneAt ? raw.slice(0, phoneAt.index) : raw).replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim();
     if (!fullName) return;
 
diff --git a/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.spec.ts b/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.spec.ts
index 71865ec..58875f9 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.spec.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,13 @@ import { parseBboxLayout } from "./tesseract.provider";
  * that grouping is what left `PERIODO FACTURADO` with no value next to it and
  * every period field empty on a batch whose text was perfectly readable.
  */
+/**
+ * Boxes are sized from the text, at 6 units a character: the reassembler now
+ * reads the space BETWEEN two boxes, so a fixed width would put a fabricated
+ * gap after every short word and every row would come back column-padded.
+ */
 function word(x: number, y: number, text: string): string {
-  return `<word xMin="${x}" yMin="${y}" xMax="${x + 20}" yMax="${y + 8}">${text}</word>`;
+  return `<word xMin="${x}" yMin="${y}" xMax="${x + text.length * 6}" yMax="${y + 8}">${text}</word>`;
 }
 
 function doc(...lines: string[]): string {
@@ -26,23 +31,57 @@ describe("parseBboxLayout", () => {
   it("rejoins a label with the value printed beside it in another flow", () => {
     const [page] = parseBboxLayout(
       doc(
-        word(20, 100, "PERIODO") + word(45, 100, "FACTURADO:"),
+        word(20, 100, "PERIODO") + word(68, 100, "FACTURADO:"),
         word(300, 100.4, "20260630-20260630"),
         padding(),
       ),
       1,
     );
     expect(page).not.toBeNull();
-    expect(page!.text).toContain("PERIODO FACTURADO: 20260630-20260630");
+    expect(page!.text).toMatch(/PERIODO FACTURADO:\s+20260630-20260630/);
   });
 
   it("keeps genuinely separate lines apart", () => {
     const [page] = parseBboxLayout(
-      doc(word(20, 100, "Cuenta:") + word(80, 100, "0900003463"), word(20, 130, "Nombre:"), padding()),
+      doc(word(20, 100, "Cuenta:") + word(68, 100, "0900003463"), word(20, 130, "Nombre:"), padding()),
       1,
     );
-    expect(page!.text.split("\n")).toContain("Cuenta: 0900003463");
-    expect(page!.text.split("\n")).toContain("Nombre:");
+    const lines = page!.text.split("\n").map((l) => l.trim());
+    expect(lines).toContain("Cuenta: 0900003463");
+    expect(lines).toContain("Nombre:");
+  });
+
+  /**
+   * The layout is data. A borderless table separates its cells with nothing
+   * but white space, so the parsers read a run of spaces as a cell boundary
+   * (`INSURED\s{2,}`) and a column offset as a column (`SUM INSURED` vs
+   * `PREMIUM`). Both regressed to nothing when this collapsed every gap to a
+   * single space, and the fixtures — taken from `pdftotext -layout`, which
+   * prints the gaps — could not see it.
+   */
+  it("preserves the gap between two cells of a borderless table", () => {
+    const [page] = parseBboxLayout(
+      doc(word(20, 100, "INSURED") + word(300, 100, "PAMELA") + word(340, 100, "WAGONER"), padding()),
+      1,
+    );
+    const line = page!.text.split("\n").find((l) => l.includes("INSURED"))!;
+    expect(line).toMatch(/INSURED\s{2,}PAMELA WAGONER/);
+  });
+
+  it("preserves the blank line between two blocks", () => {
+    const [page] = parseBboxLayout(
+      doc(word(20, 100, "Insured"), word(20, 112, "wraps"), word(20, 200, "Next"), padding()),
+      1,
+    );
+    const lines = page!.text.split("\n").map((l) => l.trim());
+    // The wrapped continuation stays attached; the next block is cut off from
+    // it, which is what stops a "join until the cell ends" walk running away.
+    expect(lines.slice(lines.indexOf("Insured"), lines.indexOf("Next") + 1)).toEqual([
+      "Insured",
+      "wraps",
+      "",
+      "Next",
+    ]);
   });
 
   it("scales point coordinates into the render's pixel space", () => {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.ts b/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.ts
index e25256c..685b111 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/statements/ocr/tesseract.provider.ts
@@ -254,6 +254,23 @@ export function parseBboxLayout(xhtml: string, scale: number): (OcrPage | null)[
  * Rows are cut when a word's vertical centre leaves the band established by
  * the row's first word, which tolerates the sub-pixel baseline differences
  * between fonts on one line without merging two genuinely separate lines.
+ *
+ * Vertical WHITE SPACE is preserved as a blank line. Rows alone are not the
+ * whole layout: on a form, the blank between two blocks is what says where a
+ * cell's wrapped value stops, and dropping it leaves parsers that walk a
+ * block ("keep joining until the cell ends") running to the end of the page.
+ * That is not hypothetical — the GMX PVL especificación read its whole first
+ * page as the insured's name, because the fixtures were taken from
+ * `pdftotext -layout` (which prints the blanks) while the runtime fed it this
+ * function's output (which did not).
+ *
+ * Horizontal white space is preserved the same way, by padding each word out
+ * to its own column. The same fixture mismatch bit here: a run of spaces is
+ * the ONLY thing separating two cells of a borderless table, so ANA's
+ * `INSURED\s{2,}` label matches and its `SUM INSURED` / `PREMIUM` column
+ * split (taken from `head.search()` offsets) both need real offsets. Joining
+ * on one space put every driver's-policy premium in the sum-insured column
+ * and left the phone glued to the insured's name.
  */
 function toVisualRows(words: OcrWord[]): string {
   const centre = (w: OcrWord) => w.top + w.height / 2;
@@ -281,14 +298,85 @@ function toVisualRows(words: OcrWord[]): string {
   }
   if (current.length) rows.push(current);
 
-  return rows
-    .map((r) =>
-      [...r]
-        .sort((a, b) => a.left - b.left)
-        .map((w) => w.text)
-        .join(" "),
-    )
-    .join("\n");
+  const charWidth = estimateCharWidth(words);
+  const out: string[] = [];
+  rows.forEach((r, i) => {
+    if (i > 0 && isBlankBetween(rows[i - 1], r)) out.push("");
+    out.push(layoutRow(r, charWidth));
+  });
+  return out.join("\n");
+}
+
+/**
+ * One row rendered at its printed column offsets.
+ *
+ * Words that merely follow one another inside the same cell are separated by
+ * exactly one space, whatever the column arithmetic says: one `charWidth` for
+ * a page that mixes fonts leaves a rounding error on every word, and letting
+ * that accumulate sprinkles `\s{2,}` runs through ordinary prose — which is
+ * the very thing the parsers read as a cell boundary. Only a gap wide enough
+ * to be deliberate (more than one blank character) is rendered as one, and
+ * only there is the word re-anchored to its true column, so the offsets a
+ * column split depends on stay honest while values stay clean.
+ */
+function layoutRow(row: OcrWord[], charWidth: number): string {
+  let line = "";
+  let right = 0;
+
+  for (const w of [...row].sort((a, b) => a.left - b.left)) {
+    const col = Math.round(w.left / charWidth);
+    if (!line.length) {
+      line = " ".repeat(Math.max(0, col));
+    } else if (w.left - right > charWidth * 1.5) {
+      line += " ".repeat(Math.max(2, col - line.length));
+    } else {
+      line += " ";
+    }
+    line += w.text;
+    right = w.left + w.width;
+  }
+
+  return line.trimEnd();
+}
+
+/**
+ * Width of one character, in the same units the word boxes use.
+ *
+ * The median of each word's own width-per-character: robust to the handful of
+ * oversized headings and to the wide-tracked letterhead, both of which would
+ * drag a mean. Only words of 3+ characters vote, since a one-character box is
+ * mostly side bearing. Falls back to a value derived from line height when a
+ * page has nothing long enough to measure.
+ */
+function estimateCharWidth(words: OcrWord[]): number {
+  const samples = words
+    .filter((w) => w.text.length >= 3 && w.width > 0)
+    .map((w) => w.width / w.text.length)
+    .sort((a, b) => a - b);
+  if (samples.length) return samples[Math.floor(samples.length / 2)];
+  const heights = words.map((w) => w.height).filter((h) => h > 0);
+  return heights.length ? Math.max(...heights) / 2 : 1;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Does the space between two consecutive rows read as an empty line?
+ *
+ * Measured against the taller of the two rows so a heading and its body text
+ * are judged on their own scale. On the real documents the two populations do
+ * not overlap: consecutive lines of one paragraph sit at 0.3–1.1 line heights
+ * apart, and anything the reader sees as blank-separated starts at 2.1. The
+ * threshold is placed in that empty middle, biased high — a missed blank only
+ * restores today's behaviour, while a spurious one would cut a wrapped value
+ * short.
+ */
+function isBlankBetween(prev: OcrWord[], row: OcrWord[]): boolean {
+  const bottom = Math.max(...prev.map((w) => w.top + w.height));
+  const top = Math.min(...row.map((w) => w.top));
+  const unit = Math.max(
+    ...prev.map((w) => w.height),
+    ...row.map((w) => w.height),
+  );
+  return unit > 0 && top - bottom > unit * 1.6;
 }
 
 /**