diff --git a/samples/bugs/PullRequest797-pdf.js.pdf b/samples/bugs/rawdata/PullRequest797-pdf.js.pdf
similarity index 100%
rename from samples/bugs/PullRequest797-pdf.js.pdf
rename to samples/bugs/rawdata/PullRequest797-pdf.js.pdf
diff --git a/samples/bugs/PullRequest797-vera.pdf b/samples/bugs/rawdata/PullRequest797-vera.pdf
similarity index 100%
rename from samples/bugs/PullRequest797-vera.pdf
rename to samples/bugs/rawdata/PullRequest797-vera.pdf
diff --git a/samples/bugs/PullRequestInvalidObjectReference.pdf b/samples/bugs/rawdata/PullRequestInvalidObjectReference.pdf
similarity index 100%
rename from samples/bugs/PullRequestInvalidObjectReference.pdf
rename to samples/bugs/rawdata/PullRequestInvalidObjectReference.pdf
diff --git a/src/Smalot/PdfParser/RawData/RawDataParser.php b/src/Smalot/PdfParser/RawData/RawDataParser.php
index 411b1951c..bebe23f6e 100644
--- a/src/Smalot/PdfParser/RawData/RawDataParser.php
+++ b/src/Smalot/PdfParser/RawData/RawDataParser.php
@@ -947,8 +947,12 @@ protected function getXrefData(string $pdfData, int $offset = 0, array $xref = [
             throw new \Exception('Unable to find xref (PDF corrupted?)');
         }
 
-        // Some files point startxref to the whitespace right before the xref keyword.
+        // Some files point startxref to the whitespace right before the xref keyword or stream object.
         $startxrefOffset = $startxref + strspn($pdfData, $this->config->getPdfWhitespaces(), $startxref);
+        // Be tolerant if startxref points one byte into the xref keyword ("ref").
+        if ($startxrefOffset > 0 && strpos($pdfData, 'xref', $startxrefOffset - 1) == $startxrefOffset - 1) {
+            --$startxrefOffset;
+        }
 
         // check xref position
         if (strpos($pdfData, 'xref', $startxrefOffset) == $startxrefOffset) {
@@ -963,7 +967,7 @@ protected function getXrefData(string $pdfData, int $offset = 0, array $xref = [
                 $xref = ['Unix' => true];
             } else {
                 // Cross-Reference Stream
-                $xref = $this->decodeXrefStream($pdfData, $startxref, $xref, $visitedOffsets);
+                $xref = $this->decodeXrefStream($pdfData, $startxrefOffset, $xref, $visitedOffsets);
             }
         }
         if (empty($xref)) {
diff --git a/tests/PHPUnit/Integration/RawData/RawDataParserTest.php b/tests/PHPUnit/Integration/RawData/RawDataParserTest.php
index f9aa6d5cf..947349336 100644
--- a/tests/PHPUnit/Integration/RawData/RawDataParserTest.php
+++ b/tests/PHPUnit/Integration/RawData/RawDataParserTest.php
@@ -318,33 +318,27 @@ public function testGetXrefDataTracksVisitedOffsets(): void
     }
 
     /**
-     * Ensure parser resolves compressed object references from xref streams.
-     *
-     * @see https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/pull/796
-     */
-    public function testParseFileWithCompressedObjRefInXrefStream(): void
-    {
-        $document = (new Parser())->parseFile($this->rootDir.'/samples/bugs/PullRequestInvalidObjectReference.pdf');
-
-        self::assertCount(1, $document->getPages());
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @see https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/pull/797
+     * @return iterable<string, array{string}>
      */
-    public function testParseFileWhenStartxrefPointsToLeadingWhitespaceInVeraPdfFixture(): void
+    public static function provideRawDataRegressionFixtures(): iterable
     {
-        $document = (new Parser())->parseFile($this->rootDir.'/samples/bugs/PullRequest797-vera.pdf');
-
-        self::assertCount(1, $document->getPages());
+        yield 'pr796 invalid-object-reference / pr798 startxref-whitespace equivalent' => [
+            'rawdata/PullRequestInvalidObjectReference.pdf',
+        ];
+        yield 'pr797 vera / pr798 pullrequest794 equivalent' => [
+            'rawdata/PullRequest797-vera.pdf',
+        ];
+        yield 'pr797 pdf.js xref stream fixture' => [
+            'rawdata/PullRequest797-pdf.js.pdf',
+        ];
     }
 
     /**
-     * @see https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/pull/797
+     * @dataProvider provideRawDataRegressionFixtures
      */
-    public function testParseFileWithCompressedXrefObjectFromPdfJsCorpus(): void
+    public function testParseFileWithRawDataRegressionFixture(string $fixturePath): void
     {
-        $document = (new Parser())->parseFile($this->rootDir.'/samples/bugs/PullRequest797-pdf.js.pdf');
+        $document = (new Parser())->parseFile($this->rootDir.'/samples/bugs/'.$fixturePath);
 
         self::assertCount(1, $document->getPages());
     }