diff --git a/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/Classes/FileContentParser.php b/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/Classes/FileContentParser.php
index bacef7cdf9aed252237abdefc15eb9284c235c22..4fe93590d5f342c29796580524f17a31b6459351 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/Classes/FileContentParser.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/indexed_search/Classes/FileContentParser.php
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ class FileContentParser
             foreach ($pdfInfoArray as $line) {
                 $parts = explode(':', $line, 2);
                 if (count($parts) > 1 && trim($parts[0])) {
-                    $res[strtolower(trim($parts[0]))] = trim($parts[1]);
+                    $res[strtolower(trim($parts[0]))] = mb_convert_encoding(trim($parts[1]), 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1');
                 }
             }
         }