diff --git a/pdfminer/pdffont.py b/pdfminer/pdffont.py
index 2a1c5f3..feb8557 100644
--- a/pdfminer/pdffont.py
+++ b/pdfminer/pdffont.py
@@ -383,10 +383,16 @@ class TrueTypeFont(object):
         self.fp = fp
         self.tables = {}
         self.fonttype = fp.read(4)
-        (ntables, _1, _2, _3) = struct.unpack('>HHHH', fp.read(8))
-        for _ in range(ntables):
-            (name, tsum, offset, length) = struct.unpack('>4sLLL', fp.read(16))
-            self.tables[name] = (offset, length)
+        try:
+            (ntables, _1, _2, _3) = struct.unpack('>HHHH', fp.read(8))
+            for _ in range(ntables):
+                (name, tsum, offset, length) = struct.unpack('>4sLLL', fp.read(16))
+                self.tables[name] = (offset, length)
+        except struct.error:
+            # Do not fail if there are not enough bytes to read. Even for
+            # corrupted PDFs we would like to get as much information as
+            # possible, so continue.
+            pass
         return
 
     def create_unicode_map(self):
diff --git a/samples/scancode/patchelf.pdf b/samples/scancode/patchelf.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b28f78e
Binary files /dev/null and b/samples/scancode/patchelf.pdf differ
diff --git a/tests/test_tools_pdf2txt.py b/tests/test_tools_pdf2txt.py
index 70e6cf9..18be203 100644
--- a/tests/test_tools_pdf2txt.py
+++ b/tests/test_tools_pdf2txt.py
@@ -47,11 +47,15 @@ class TestDumpPDF():
     def test_7(self):
         run('../samples/contrib/','stamp-no')
     """
- 
+
     def test_8(self):
         run('../samples/contrib/','2b','-A -t xml')
 
     def test_9(self):
         run('../samples/nonfree/','175') # https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/issues/65
+
+    def test_10(self):
+        run('../samples/scancode/','patchelf') # https://github.com/euske/pdfminer/issues/96
+
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     nose.runmodule()