PDF Imbedded Title and Search Results

I am in the process of developing a intranet search and have come up against a problem with PDF files. The embedded title is delivered up as the link in the search results. Most of the PDFs we link to are created outside our department, so the embedded title is meaningless to our users.
Any ideas about how we can change the title? Thanks.

I have never seen anyone request this so no information from there. Also I cannot think of any way of doing it. The only solution might be to prefix topic titles or put the information on the first line of the content. However, that is going to take up space better used letting the user see the initial topic content.
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