diff --git a/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/Tokenizer.java b/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/Tokenizer.java
index d8f744e6f..0e2b67595 100644
--- a/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/Tokenizer.java
+++ b/jhove-modules/src/main/java/edu/harvard/hul/ois/jhove/module/pdf/Tokenizer.java
@@ -418,9 +418,9 @@ else if (_state == (State.NAME)) {
                         int ch1 = readChar ();
                         int ch2 = readChar ();
                         // Will throw a PDFException if not hexadecimal:
-                        _ch = (hexValue(ch1) << 8) + hexValue(ch2);
+                        _ch = (hexValue(ch1) << 4) + hexValue(ch2);
                     }
-                    if (isDelimiter (_ch) || isWhitespace (_ch)) {
+                    else if (isDelimiter (_ch) || isWhitespace (_ch)) {
                         _state = State.WHITESPACE;
                         ((StringValuedToken) token).setValue(buffer.toString());