diff --git a/examples/research_projects/tapex/wikisql_utils.py b/examples/research_projects/tapex/wikisql_utils.py
index 110b14e02fb8e0..3351bddf019448 100644
--- a/examples/research_projects/tapex/wikisql_utils.py
+++ b/examples/research_projects/tapex/wikisql_utils.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 # The following script is adapted from the script of TaPas.
 # Original: https://github.com/google-research/tapas/master/wikisql_utils.py
-from typing import Any, List, Text
+from typing import Any, List
 
 
 EMPTY_ANSWER = "none"
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ class _Operator(enum.Enum):
 class _Condition:
     """Represents an SQL where clauses (e.g A = "a" or B > 5)."""
 
-    column: Text
+    column: str
     operator: _Operator
     cmp_value: Any
 
diff --git a/src/transformers/models/tapas/tokenization_tapas.py b/src/transformers/models/tapas/tokenization_tapas.py
index 124d48df24ca20..23fbd5300ed583 100644
--- a/src/transformers/models/tapas/tokenization_tapas.py
+++ b/src/transformers/models/tapas/tokenization_tapas.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 import re
 import unicodedata
 from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Callable, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Text, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Callable, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 
@@ -70,19 +70,19 @@ class TokenCoordinates:
 
 @dataclass
 class TokenizedTable:
-    rows: List[List[List[Text]]]
+    rows: List[List[List[str]]]
     selected_tokens: List[TokenCoordinates]
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class SerializedExample:
-    tokens: List[Text]
+    tokens: List[str]
     column_ids: List[int]
     row_ids: List[int]
     segment_ids: List[int]
 
 
-def _is_inner_wordpiece(token: Text):
+def _is_inner_wordpiece(token: str):
     return token.startswith("##")
 
 
@@ -2224,14 +2224,14 @@ class NumericValueSpan:
 
 @dataclass
 class Cell:
-    text: Text
+    text: str
     numeric_value: Optional[NumericValue] = None
 
 
 @dataclass
 class Question:
-    original_text: Text  # The original raw question string.
-    text: Text  # The question string after normalization.
+    original_text: str  # The original raw question string.
+    text: str  # The question string after normalization.
     numeric_spans: Optional[List[NumericValueSpan]] = None