diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Document.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Document.cpp
index 38a6aedcbc9..bdf0eea509f 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Document.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/Document.cpp
@@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ ByteString Document::text_string_to_utf8(ByteString const& text_string)
 
 PDFErrorOr<NonnullRefPtr<Document>> Document::create(ReadonlyBytes bytes)
 {
+    size_t offset_to_start = TRY(DocumentParser::scan_for_header_start(bytes));
+    if (offset_to_start != 0) {
+        dbgln("warning: PDF header not at start of file, skipping {} bytes", offset_to_start);
+        bytes = bytes.slice(offset_to_start);
+    }
+
     auto parser = adopt_ref(*new DocumentParser({}, bytes));
     auto document = adopt_ref(*new Document(parser));
 
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.cpp
index d147d854d5c..d772f57f613 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.cpp
@@ -72,6 +72,19 @@ PDFErrorOr<Value> DocumentParser::parse_object_with_index(u32 index)
     return indirect_value->value();
 }
 
+PDFErrorOr<size_t> DocumentParser::scan_for_header_start(ReadonlyBytes bytes)
+{
+    // PDF 1.7 spec, APPENDIX H, 3.4.1 "File Header":
+    // "13. Acrobat viewers require only that the header appear somewhere within the first 1024 bytes of the file."
+    // ...which of course means files depend on it.
+    // All offsets in the file are relative to the header start, not to the start of the file.
+    StringView first_bytes { bytes.data(), min(bytes.size(), 1024 - "1.4"sv.length()) };
+    Optional<size_t> start_offset = first_bytes.find("%PDF-"sv);
+    if (!start_offset.has_value())
+        return Error { Error::Type::Parse, "Failed to find PDF start" };
+    return start_offset.value();
+}
+
 PDFErrorOr<Version> DocumentParser::parse_header()
 {
     m_reader.move_to(0);
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.h
index cbb127417aa..16ecd5d1992 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibPDF/DocumentParser.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ struct Version {
 class DocumentParser final : public RefCounted<DocumentParser>
     , public Parser {
 public:
+    static PDFErrorOr<size_t> scan_for_header_start(ReadonlyBytes);
+
     DocumentParser(Document*, ReadonlyBytes);
 
     enum class LinearizationResult {