[QUESTION] Ingesting Excel Files

[Likhitha075]

Question

When I attempt to upload an Excel file, I encounter an encoding-related error. I've attached it for reference. How can I upload Excel files to privateGPT like I do with other files? Are any code changes necessary, considering that Llama supports PandasExcelReader as well?

[jaluma]

Can you try to resaving in another encoding and reuploading? Using UTF-8 should work without any issue

[Likhitha075]

I’ve tried using a different encoding format, but the issue persists.
The error is as follows:
'UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' codec can't decode byte 0x8d in position 663: character maps to undefined'

[jaluma]

Can you try to save using other format xlsx vs xls? It should work without problem. Are there any non-ascii char in the document?