diff --git a/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/util/Hex.java b/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/util/Hex.java
index 48be325ae70..8486a7c49e5 100644
--- a/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/util/Hex.java
+++ b/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/util/Hex.java
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ public static byte[] getBytes(byte b)
     /**
      * Returns the bytes corresponding to the ASCII hex encoding of the given bytes.
      * 
-     * @param bytes the bytey to be converted
+     * @param bytes the bytes to be converted
      * @return the ASCII hex encoding of the given bytes
      */
     public static byte[] getBytes(byte[] bytes)