diff --git a/app/escriptorium/static/js/baseline.editor.js b/app/escriptorium/static/js/baseline.editor.js
index 83d93059a43049da25326a10df70410789f0c9c0..a74d0c39a7c020f07f8d3e00897f08ce27d379be 100644
--- a/app/escriptorium/static/js/baseline.editor.js
+++ b/app/escriptorium/static/js/baseline.editor.js
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ class Segmenter {
             if (this.idField) context[this.idField] = line[this.idField];
             if (!line.baseline) this.toggleMasks(true);
             return this.createLine(null, line.baseline, line.mask,
-                                   region || line.region || null, line.type, context);
+                                   region, line.type, context);
         } else {
             console.log('EDITOR SKIPING invalid line: ', line);
             return null;