diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ccc5c65b..f97ec59e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "dolma"
-version = "1.0.5"
+version = "1.0.6"
 description = "Data filters"
 license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/python/dolma/taggers/gopher.py b/python/dolma/taggers/gopher.py
index 3417f625..6a5a9c84 100644
--- a/python/dolma/taggers/gopher.py
+++ b/python/dolma/taggers/gopher.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import logging
+import re
 from collections import Counter
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from statistics import median
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ def as_spans(self) -> List[Span]:
         return spans
 
 
-def get_attributes(text: str) -> GopherAttributes:
+def get_attributes(text: str, ignore_empty_lines: bool = False) -> GopherAttributes:
     attrs = GopherAttributes([], [])
     attrs.character_count = len(text)
     if attrs.character_count == 0:
@@ -173,7 +174,11 @@ def get_attributes(text: str) -> GopherAttributes:
                 ) / max(ng_char_count, 1)
                 attrs.fraction_of_characters_in_duplicate_ngrams.append((n, value))
 
-        lines = text.split("\n")
+        if ignore_empty_lines:
+            lines = re.split(r"\n+", text)
+        else:
+            lines = text.split("\n")
+
         line_count = len(lines)
         for line in lines:
             if any(line.startswith(s) for s in BULLET_POINTS):
@@ -218,3 +223,11 @@ def predict(self, doc: Document) -> DocResult:
         attrs = get_attributes(doc.text)
         result = DocResult(doc=doc, spans=attrs.as_spans())
         return result
+
+
+@TaggerRegistry.add("gopher_v2")
+class GopherTaggerV2(GopherTagger):
+    def predict(self, doc: Document) -> DocResult:
+        attrs = get_attributes(doc.text, ignore_empty_lines=True)
+        result = DocResult(doc=doc, spans=attrs.as_spans())
+        return result