diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bc8fd43..6b62439 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def _run(self, command):
 setup(
     # include data files
     name="amazon-textract-textractor",
-    version="1.8.1",
+    version="1.8.2",
     license="Apache 2.0",
     description="A package to use AWS Textract services.",
     url="https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-textract-textractor",
diff --git a/textractor/__init__.py b/textractor/__init__.py
index bea822f..9f627f8 100644
--- a/textractor/__init__.py
+++ b/textractor/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-__version__ = "1.8.1"
+__version__ = "1.8.2"
 
 from .textractor import Textractor
diff --git a/textractor/textractor.py b/textractor/textractor.py
index 8fcc587..068829c 100644
--- a/textractor/textractor.py
+++ b/textractor/textractor.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ def _get_document_images_from_path(self, filepath: str) -> List[Image.Image]:
             file_obj = s3_client.get_object(Bucket=bucket, Key=key).get("Body").read()
             if filepath.lower().endswith(".pdf"):
                 if IS_PDF_RENDERING_ENABLED:
-                    images = rasterize_pdf(bytearray(file_obj))
+                    images = rasterize_pdf(file_obj)
                 else:
                     raise MissingDependencyException(
                         "pdf2image is not installed. If you do not plan on using visualizations you can skip image generation using save_image=False in your function call."