Uploading short .txt file error: "Extracted content contained only whitespace"

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When uploading a short .txt file to my assistant, I’m getting the following error:

Failed to index file: Error extracting text from file [...] detail_str=', detail: Extracted content contained only whitespace.' self.error_code=<FileParsingErrorCode.EMPTY_FILE: 'file_empty'> self.m...

The file is called “temp.txt” and contains only a single line which is the word “hi”. When I add more than 5 characters, the upload is successful. For example “hello” doesn’t work, but “hellot” uploads successfully.
Our application would like to allow users to upload files of any size. Is there a workaround for this other than detecting small file sizes manually?

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Maybe check file size or add something 5 characters long to all uploaded texts?

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The only issue here is then categorizing files into plaintext vs. other formats, such as pdf, which we wouldn’t want to mess with. But that could be viable.

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Might be another way to check for an empty PDF? Not sure why they would upload it, but good to think about edge cases.

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