The "junk" characters indicate that the font isn't embedded completely.
You'll find names such as ABC123+RemingtonNoiseless, XYZ456+RemingtonNoiseless, etc...
meaning that there may be different subsets of the same font inside the PDF.
For an explanation have a look at section 9.6.4 Font Subsets of the PDF specification ISO 32000-1:2008:
For a font subset, the PostScript name of the font — the value of the font’s BaseFont entry and the font descriptor’s FontName entry — shall
begin with a tag followed by a plus sign (+). The tag shall consist of exactly six uppercase letters; the choice of letters is arbitrary,
but different subsets in the same PDF file shall have different tags.
EXAMPLE EOODIA+Poetica is the name of a subset of Poetica®, a Type 1 font.
In other words: these characters aren't merely "junk".
If you want to remove them, that's a no-brainer, just use the appropriate string manipulation method,
but be aware that removing them throws away information that may be useful in some contexts.