diff --git a/src/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.ts b/src/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.ts
index c51b59fd4..6f84927cb 100644
--- a/src/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.ts
+++ b/src/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.ts
@@ -243,14 +243,25 @@ class PDFObjectParser extends BaseParser {
 
   protected findEndOfStreamFallback(startPos: Position) {
     // Move to end of stream, while handling nested streams
+    let acceptUnprefixedStream = true;
     let nestingLvl = 1;
     let end = this.bytes.offset();
 
     while (!this.bytes.done()) {
       end = this.bytes.offset();
 
-      if (this.matchKeyword(Keywords.stream)) {
+      if (
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream1) ||
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream2) ||
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream3) ||
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream4) ||
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream5) ||
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream6) ||
+        this.matchKeyword(Keywords.embeddedStream7) ||
+        (acceptUnprefixedStream && this.matchKeyword(Keywords.stream))
+      ) {
         nestingLvl += 1;
+        acceptUnprefixedStream = true;
       } else if (
         this.matchKeyword(Keywords.EOF1endstream) ||
         this.matchKeyword(Keywords.EOF2endstream) ||
@@ -258,8 +269,10 @@ class PDFObjectParser extends BaseParser {
         this.matchKeyword(Keywords.endstream)
       ) {
         nestingLvl -= 1;
+        acceptUnprefixedStream = true;
       } else {
         this.bytes.next();
+        acceptUnprefixedStream = false;
       }
 
       if (nestingLvl === 0) break;
diff --git a/src/core/syntax/Keywords.ts b/src/core/syntax/Keywords.ts
index 12e2f957c..5989af850 100644
--- a/src/core/syntax/Keywords.ts
+++ b/src/core/syntax/Keywords.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 import CharCodes from 'src/core/syntax/CharCodes';
 
-const { Space, CarriageReturn, Newline } = CharCodes;
+const {
+  Space,
+  CarriageReturn,
+  Newline,
+  Tab,
+  LessThan,
+  GreaterThan,
+  BackSlash,
+} = CharCodes;
 
 const stream = [
   CharCodes.s,
@@ -76,6 +84,13 @@ export const Keywords = {
   streamEOF2: [...stream, CarriageReturn, Newline],
   streamEOF3: [...stream, CarriageReturn],
   streamEOF4: [...stream, Newline],
+  embeddedStream1: [Tab, ...stream],
+  embeddedStream2: [Space, ...stream],
+  embeddedStream3: [CarriageReturn, ...stream],
+  embeddedStream4: [Newline, ...stream],
+  embeddedStream5: [LessThan, ...stream],
+  embeddedStream6: [GreaterThan, ...stream],
+  embeddedStream7: [BackSlash, ...stream],
   endstream,
   EOF1endstream: [CarriageReturn, Newline, ...endstream],
   EOF2endstream: [CarriageReturn, ...endstream],
diff --git a/tests/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.spec.ts b/tests/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.spec.ts
index 576dfe14a..5c171ab09 100644
--- a/tests/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/core/parser/PDFObjectParser.spec.ts
@@ -576,6 +576,10 @@ describe(`PDFObjectParser`, () => {
         '<<>>\n\rstream\n\rthingz\n\rendstream',
         '<<\n/Length 8\n>>\nstream\n\rthingz\n\nendstream',
       ],
+      [
+        '<<>>\n\rstream\n\rthingz bitstream\n\rendstream',
+        '<<\n/Length 18\n>>\nstream\n\rthingz bitstream\n\nendstream',
+      ],
     ].forEach(([input, output]) => {
       it(`can parse ${JSON.stringify(input)}`, () => {
         const object = parse(typedArrayFor(input));