diff --git a/haystack/components/converters/pypdf.py b/haystack/components/converters/pypdf.py
index de55f68471..ae46ac918e 100644
--- a/haystack/components/converters/pypdf.py
+++ b/haystack/components/converters/pypdf.py
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ def from_dict(cls, data):
             data["init_parameters"]["converter"] = deserialize_class_instance(custom_converter_data)
         return default_from_dict(cls, data)
 
-    def _default_convert(self, reader: "PdfReader") -> Document:
+    def _default_convert(self, reader: "PdfReader") -> str:
         texts = []
         for page in reader.pages:
             texts.append(
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def _default_convert(self, reader: "PdfReader") -> Document:
                 )
             )
         text = "\f".join(texts)
-        return Document(content=text)
+        return text
 
     @component.output_types(documents=List[Document])
     def run(
@@ -246,8 +246,10 @@ def run(
                 continue
             try:
                 pdf_reader = PdfReader(io.BytesIO(bytestream.data))
-                document = (
-                    self._default_convert(pdf_reader) if self.converter is None else self.converter.convert(pdf_reader)
+                text = (
+                    self._default_convert(pdf_reader)
+                    if self.converter is None
+                    else self.converter.convert(pdf_reader).content
                 )
             except Exception as e:
                 logger.warning(
@@ -255,7 +257,7 @@ def run(
                 )
                 continue
 
-            if document.content is None or document.content.strip() == "":
+            if text is None or text.strip() == "":
                 logger.warning(
                     "PyPDFToDocument could not extract text from the file {source}. Returning an empty document.",
                     source=source,
@@ -270,7 +272,7 @@ def run(
             )
             if not self.store_full_path and (file_path := bytestream.meta.get("file_path")):
                 merged_metadata["file_path"] = os.path.basename(file_path)
-            document.meta = merged_metadata
+            document = Document(content=text, meta=merged_metadata)
             documents.append(document)
 
         return {"documents": documents}
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/pypdf-docid-293dac08ea5f8491.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/pypdf-docid-293dac08ea5f8491.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f077d8b4ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/pypdf-docid-293dac08ea5f8491.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+fixes:
+  - |
+    PyPDFToDocument now creates documents with id based on converted text and meta data. Before it didn't take the meta data into account.
diff --git a/test/components/converters/test_pypdf_to_document.py b/test/components/converters/test_pypdf_to_document.py
index e82b8029d4..58a9835ebc 100644
--- a/test/components/converters/test_pypdf_to_document.py
+++ b/test/components/converters/test_pypdf_to_document.py
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ def test_default_convert(self):
             layout_mode_font_height_weight=1.5,
         )
 
-        doc = converter._default_convert(mock_reader)
-        assert doc.content == "Page 1 content\fPage 2 content"
+        text = converter._default_convert(mock_reader)
+        assert text == "Page 1 content\fPage 2 content"
 
         expected_params = {
             "extraction_mode": "layout",
@@ -292,3 +292,7 @@ def test_run_empty_document(self, caplog, test_files_path):
             output = PyPDFToDocument().run(sources=paths)
             assert "PyPDFToDocument could not extract text from the file" in caplog.text
             assert output["documents"][0].content == ""
+
+            # Check that meta is used when the returned document is initialized and thus when doc id is generated
+            assert "non_text_searchable.pdf" in output["documents"][0].meta["file_path"]
+            assert output["documents"][0].id != Document(content="").id