diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-file/llama_index/readers/file/docs/base.py b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-file/llama_index/readers/file/docs/base.py
index 6a75489ffdc87..86864013dd4d5 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-file/llama_index/readers/file/docs/base.py
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/readers/llama-index-readers-file/llama_index/readers/file/docs/base.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import logging
 import struct
 import zlib
-from pathlib import Path
+from pathlib import Path, PurePosixPath
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
 
 from tenacity import retry, stop_after_attempt
@@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ def load_data(
         fs: Optional[AbstractFileSystem] = None,
     ) -> List[Document]:
         """Parse file."""
-        if not isinstance(file, Path):
-            file = Path(file)
+        if not isinstance(file, Path) and not isinstance(file, PurePosixPath):
+            file = PurePosixPath(file)
 
         try:
             import pypdf