diff --git a/app/views/directory.ejs b/app/views/directory.ejs
index 2eeecef8..edfe52dd 100644
--- a/app/views/directory.ejs
+++ b/app/views/directory.ejs
@@ -39,18 +39,20 @@
             <% } %>
           </div>
         </div>
-        <div class="row p-4 pb-0 pe-lg-0 pt-lg-5 align-items-center rounded-3 border shadow-lg" style="max-height:65vh;overflow-y:scroll">
-          <div class="col-lg-12 p-3 p-lg-5 pt-lg-3">
-            <h2 class="title">OCR Text Scan (approximately)</h1>
-            <p>
-              This text scan may contain automatically generated text as generated using Apache Tika
-              and Tesseract. It may not be correct. No effort has been made to correct any of these scans
-              (so far). These OCR scans are also used in the site's Search feature. Please review the
-              <a href="/search-policy" target="_blank">Search Policy</a> for details about the site features.
-            </p>
-            <pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;overflow-wrap:anywhere"><%- h.printReadme(directory) %></pre>
+        <% if (typeof h.readmeFm(directory).file !== 'undefined') { %>
+          <div class="row p-4 pb-0 pe-lg-0 pt-lg-5 align-items-center rounded-3 border shadow-lg" style="max-height:65vh;overflow-y:scroll">
+            <div class="col-lg-12 p-3 p-lg-5 pt-lg-3">
+              <h2 class="title">OCR Text Scan (approximately)</h1>
+              <p>
+                This text scan may contain automatically generated text as generated using Apache Tika
+                and Tesseract. It may not be correct. No effort has been made to correct any of these scans
+                (so far). These OCR scans are also used in the site's Search feature. Please review the
+                <a href="/search-policy" target="_blank">Search Policy</a> for details about the site features.
+              </p>
+              <pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;overflow-wrap:anywhere"><%- h.printReadme(directory) %></pre>
+            </div>
           </div>
-        </div>
+        <% } %>
       <% } %>
 
       <ul id="files" class="list-group shadow-lg">