diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 95011b522d..f7cd302f6e 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - Improve tag widget customization by moving the markup to its own template.
 - Fix document page widget appearance in the document page list view.
 - Make document version order deterministic.
+- Allow total page number instrospection of encrypted PDF with non ASCII user properties. GitLab issue #411.
 
 2.6.1 (2017-07-18)
 ==================
diff --git a/mayan/apps/converter/backends/python.py b/mayan/apps/converter/backends/python.py
index 5247c8af1c..b97d4b6d0c 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/converter/backends/python.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/converter/backends/python.py
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ class Python(ConverterBase):
                             page_count = int(
                                 filter(
                                     lambda line: line.startswith('Pages:'),
-                                    process.stdout.split(b'\n')
+                                    force_text(process.stdout).split('\n')
                                 )[0].replace('Pages:', '')
                             )
                             file_object.seek(0)