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Scan fails on PDF file #56

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@pombredanne

The file at https://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pg/5756M-PG101-R.pdf fails to be scanned.
This is a bug in pdfminer. See euske/pdfminer#118

wget https://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pg/5756M-PG101-R.pdf
python -c "from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser;p=PDFParser(open('5756M-PG101-R.pdf','rb'));from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument;PDFDocument(p)" 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdfminer/pdfdocument.py", line 575, in __init__
    self._initialize_password(password)
  File "[...]/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdfminer/pdfdocument.py", line 598, in _initialize_password
    raise PDFEncryptionError('Unknown algorithm: param=%r' % param)
pdfminer.pdfdocument.PDFEncryptionError: Unknown algorithm: param={u'EncryptMetadata': False, u'CF': {u'StdCF': {u'Length': 16, u'CFM': /V2, u'AuthEvent': /DocOpen}}, u'O': '\xc6\xa4\xb4%\xed\xda\xe8\x7f&\xd2\x97\x840y\xc7\xbe!N\xdb\xfbw\x0f\x04\xb3iZTn\n\xc3\x93c', u'Filter': /Standard, u'P': -1324, u'Length': 128, u'R': 4, u'U': '\xf3\xa1\xeb\xa5\x19\x8a\x15%\x001\x13CenHO\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00', u'V': 4, u'StmF': /StdCF, u'StrF': /StdCF}

Note that on Linux using:

 wget https://www.broadcom.com/collateral/pg/5756M-PG101-R.pdf
 pdfseparate -f 1 -l 1 5756M-PG101-R.pdf  5756M-PG101-R-p1.pdf

creates a single page small PDF doc that has the same issue as the full doc

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