diff --git a/tests/config/recoll.conf b/tests/config/recoll.conf
index d9b3b068..2c956f3d 100644
--- a/tests/config/recoll.conf
+++ b/tests/config/recoll.conf
@@ -56,3 +56,7 @@ indexedmimetypes = text/plain
 
 [/home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/excltypes]
 excludedmimetypes = text/plain
+
+[/home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/excludehtml]
+indexedmimetypes = application/pdf
+
diff --git a/tests/excludehtml/excludehtml.sh b/tests/excludehtml/excludehtml.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..368af50b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/excludehtml/excludehtml.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+topdir=`dirname $0`/..
+. $topdir/shared.sh
+
+initvariables $0
+(
+    echo "Looking for content in HTML: should get 0 results"
+    recollq '"Unity Lens""' dir:excludehtml
+    echo "Looking for content in PDF: should get 1 result"
+    recollq INFOMA dir:excludehtml
+) 2> $mystderr | egrep -v '^Recoll query: ' > $mystdout
+
+diff -w ${myname}.txt $mystdout > $mydiffs 2>&1
+
+checkresult
diff --git a/tests/excludehtml/excludehtml.txt b/tests/excludehtml/excludehtml.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ec8f20f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/excludehtml/excludehtml.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Looking for content in HTML: should get 0 results
+0 results
+Looking for content in PDF: should get 1 result
+1 results
+application/pdf	[file:///home/dockes/projets/fulltext/testrecoll/excludehtml/registreElevage.pdf]	[Document précédent /]	71290	bytes