diff --git a/src/shared/util.js b/src/shared/util.js
index 589bb4887..62c53a577 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.js
+++ b/src/shared/util.js
@@ -752,6 +752,12 @@ function stringToPDFString(str) {
       strBuf.push(String.fromCharCode(
         (str.charCodeAt(i) << 8) | str.charCodeAt(i + 1)));
     }
+  } else if (str[0] === '\xFF' && str[1] === '\xFE') {
+    // UTF16LE BOM
+    for (let i = 2; i < length; i += 2) {
+      strBuf.push(String.fromCharCode(
+        (str.charCodeAt(i + 1) << 8) | str.charCodeAt(i)));
+    }
   } else {
     for (let i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
       const code = PDFStringTranslateTable[str.charCodeAt(i)];
diff --git a/test/unit/util_spec.js b/test/unit/util_spec.js
index cd2c9724d..ce1f0c21e 100644
--- a/test/unit/util_spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/util_spec.js
@@ -179,11 +179,16 @@ describe('util', function() {
       expect(stringToPDFString(str)).toEqual('\u201Cstring\u201D');
     });
 
-    it('handles UTF-16BE strings', function() {
+    it('handles UTF-16 big-endian strings', function() {
       let str = '\xFE\xFF\x00\x73\x00\x74\x00\x72\x00\x69\x00\x6E\x00\x67';
       expect(stringToPDFString(str)).toEqual('string');
     });
 
+    it('handles UTF-16 little-endian strings', function() {
+      let str = '\xFF\xFE\x73\x00\x74\x00\x72\x00\x69\x00\x6E\x00\x67\x00';
+      expect(stringToPDFString(str)).toEqual('string');
+    });
+
     it('handles empty strings', function() {
       // ISO Latin 1
       let str1 = '';
@@ -192,6 +197,10 @@ describe('util', function() {
       // UTF-16BE
       let str2 = '\xFE\xFF';
       expect(stringToPDFString(str2)).toEqual('');
+
+      // UTF-16LE
+      let str3 = '\xFF\xFE';
+      expect(stringToPDFString(str3)).toEqual('');
     });
   });