diff --git a/PyPDF2/pdf.py b/PyPDF2/pdf.py
index 9bfa1bd0d..5bd4b7968 100644
--- a/PyPDF2/pdf.py
+++ b/PyPDF2/pdf.py
@@ -2896,7 +2896,7 @@ def getText(self, key):
             return retval
         return None
 
-    title = property(lambda self: self.getText("/Title"))
+    title = property(lambda self: self.getText("/Title") or self.get("/Title").getObject() if self.get("/Title") else None)
     """Read-only property accessing the document's **title**.
     Returns a unicode string (``TextStringObject``) or ``None``
     if the title is not specified."""