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fix: when convert doc to docx, UnicodeDecodeError may be raised #3830

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions requirements/base.in
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Expand Up @@ -22,3 +22,4 @@ tqdm
psutil
python-oxmsg
html5lib
chardet
5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion unstructured/partition/common/common.py
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from __future__ import annotations

import chardet
import numbers
import subprocess
from io import BufferedReader, BytesIO, TextIOWrapper
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wait_time = 0
sleep_time = 0.1
output = subprocess.run(command, capture_output=True)
message = output.stdout.decode().strip()
detected_encoding = chardet.detect(output.stdout)
encoding = detected_encoding['encoding'] or 'utf-8' # Default to utf-8 if detection fails
message = output.stdout.decode(encoding).strip()
# we can't rely on returncode unfortunately because on macOS it would return 0 even when the
# command failed to run; instead we have to rely on the stdout being empty as a sign of the
# process failed
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