diff --git a/install/settings.xml.template_install b/install/settings.xml.template_install
index 847c03578..57c8f449e 100644
--- a/install/settings.xml.template_install
+++ b/install/settings.xml.template_install
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@
     </server>
     <converters>
 		 <converter mimeType="application/pdf">
-		  pdftotext -nopgbrk %s - | sed -e 's/ [a-zA-Z0-9.]\{1\} / /g' -e 's/[0-9.]//g'
+		  pdftotext -enc UTF-8 -nopgbrk %s - | sed -e 's/ [a-zA-Z0-9.]\{1\} / /g' -e 's/[0-9.]//g'
 		 </converter>
      <converter mimeType="application/msword">
        catdoc %s