Expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not UploadedFile for PDF file

[Marisa_Smith]

Hey @Saksham,

First, welcome to the Streamlit Community!!!

Can you post a link to your code? Also, you’re passing your uploaded file into a function that I cannot see, I imagine that somewhere in that function your passing the uploaded file directly into something that was expected “str”, “bytes” or a path.

Check out this discussion where someone has a similar issue (docs typo already fixed):

Error calling decode on UploadedFile type?

Apologies for our docs typo! We have a PR out to fix that up so it should be resolved shortly. Unfortunately we do not offer any shortcut to convert an UploadedFile to a string. It is a file-like object so you would first have to read the contents and then decode it in order to create a StringIO object. stringio = StringIO(uploaded_file.getvalue().decode("utf-8")) You could also wrap into a TextIOWrapper. TextIOWrapper can decode a buffer easily whereas StringIO takes in a string. Ultimately…

Happy Streamlit-ing!
Marisa