diff --git a/linkcheck/plugins/parsepdf.py b/linkcheck/plugins/parsepdf.py
index fa69fae6..d9f9fe88 100755
--- a/linkcheck/plugins/parsepdf.py
+++ b/linkcheck/plugins/parsepdf.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class PdfParser(_ParserPlugin):
         """Parse PDF data."""
         # XXX user authentication from url_data
         password = ''
-        data = url_data.get_content()
+        data = url_data.get_raw_content()
         # PDFParser needs a seekable file object
         fp = StringIO(data)
         try: