diff --git a/src/core/annotation.js b/src/core/annotation.js
index 825e9247a9a72..454003cab8726 100644
--- a/src/core/annotation.js
+++ b/src/core/annotation.js
@@ -1292,7 +1292,26 @@ class Annotation {
         bbox,
         matrix
       );
-      this.data.textContent = text;
+
+      if (this instanceof TextWidgetAnnotation) {
+        // The text extractor doesn't handle empty lines correctly, so if the
+        // content we get is more or less (modulo whitespaces) the same as the
+        // field value we just ignore it.
+        const allText = text.join("\n");
+        if (allText === this.data.fieldValue) {
+          this.data.textContent = text;
+        } else {
+          const regex = allText.replaceAll(
+            /([.*+?^${}()|[\]\\])|(\s+)/g,
+            (_m, p1) => (p1 ? `\\${p1}` : "\\s+")
+          );
+          this.data.textContent = new RegExp(regex).test(this.data.fieldValue)
+            ? this.data.fieldValue.split("\n")
+            : text;
+        }
+      } else {
+        this.data.textContent = text;
+      }
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/test/pdfs/.gitignore b/test/pdfs/.gitignore
index d74a670c356d7..c4ef395eb0990 100644
--- a/test/pdfs/.gitignore
+++ b/test/pdfs/.gitignore
@@ -674,3 +674,4 @@
 !issue18072.pdf
 !stamps.pdf
 !issue15096.pdf
+!issue18036.pdf
diff --git a/test/pdfs/issue18036.pdf b/test/pdfs/issue18036.pdf
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000..d6e8d8923ac19
Binary files /dev/null and b/test/pdfs/issue18036.pdf differ
diff --git a/test/test_manifest.json b/test/test_manifest.json
index 044fb9825838b..a1f6b90a127df 100644
--- a/test/test_manifest.json
+++ b/test/test_manifest.json
@@ -10684,5 +10684,13 @@
         "value": false
       }
     }
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "issue18036",
+    "file": "pdfs/issue18036.pdf",
+    "md5": "940ad97fc1a6f8d288a213af80313c7e",
+    "rounds": 1,
+    "type": "eq",
+    "annotations": true
   }
 ]