diff --git a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/extractor/TestXWPFWordExtractor.java b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/extractor/TestXWPFWordExtractor.java
index 57a67eab6..46188f5ed 100644
--- a/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/extractor/TestXWPFWordExtractor.java
+++ b/src/ooxml/testcases/org/apache/poi/xwpf/extractor/TestXWPFWordExtractor.java
@@ -270,4 +270,15 @@ public class TestXWPFWordExtractor extends TestCase {
         assertTrue(text.length() > 0);
         assertTrue(text.contains("FldSimple.docx"));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Test for parsing document with drawings to prevent
+     * NoClassDefFoundError for CTAnchor in XWPFRun
+     */
+    public void testDrawings() throws IOException {
+        XWPFDocument doc = XWPFTestDataSamples.openSampleDocument("drawing.docx");
+        XWPFWordExtractor extractor = new XWPFWordExtractor(doc);
+        String text = extractor.getText();
+        assertTrue(text.length() > 0);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/test-data/document/drawing.docx b/test-data/document/drawing.docx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23546b7f2
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