diff --git a/backend/danswer/connectors/google_drive/connector.py b/backend/danswer/connectors/google_drive/connector.py
index 1a4f91d1726..80674b5a37d 100644
--- a/backend/danswer/connectors/google_drive/connector.py
+++ b/backend/danswer/connectors/google_drive/connector.py
@@ -317,27 +317,23 @@ def extract_text(file: dict[str, str], service: discovery.Resource) -> str:
         GDriveMimeType.DOC.value,
         GDriveMimeType.PPT.value,
         GDriveMimeType.SPREADSHEET.value,
-        GDriveMimeType.PLAIN_TEXT.value,
-        GDriveMimeType.MARKDOWN.value,
     ]:
-        export_mime_type = "text/plain"
-        if mime_type == GDriveMimeType.SPREADSHEET.value:
-            export_mime_type = "text/csv"
-        elif mime_type == GDriveMimeType.PPT.value:
-            export_mime_type = "text/plain"
-        elif mime_type in [
-            GDriveMimeType.PLAIN_TEXT.value,
-            GDriveMimeType.MARKDOWN.value,
-        ]:
-            export_mime_type = mime_type
-
-        response = (
+        export_mime_type = (
+            "text/plain"
+            if mime_type != GDriveMimeType.SPREADSHEET.value
+            else "text/csv"
+        )
+        return (
             service.files()
             .export(fileId=file["id"], mimeType=export_mime_type)
             .execute()
+            .decode("utf-8")
         )
-        return response.decode("utf-8")
-
+    elif mime_type in [
+        GDriveMimeType.PLAIN_TEXT.value,
+        GDriveMimeType.MARKDOWN.value,
+    ]:
+        return service.files().get_media(fileId=file["id"]).execute().decode("utf-8")
     elif mime_type == GDriveMimeType.WORD_DOC.value:
         response = service.files().get_media(fileId=file["id"]).execute()
         return docx_to_text(file=io.BytesIO(response))