Update app.py

app.py

@@ -500,17 +500,24 @@ def create_new_blank_record(container):
 
 # Function to preprocess the pasted content
 def preprocess_text(text):
-    # Replace CRLF with \n
+    # Replace CRLF and other newline variations with the JSON newline escape sequence
     text = text.replace('\r\n', '\\n')
     text = text.replace('\r', '\\n')
     text = text.replace('\n', '\\n')
-
-    # Optionally, you can add more replacements for other unsupported characters here
-    # Example: handling quotes or other escape sequences if necessary
-
+    
+    # Escape double quotes inside the text
+    text = text.replace('"', '\\"')
+    
+    # Optionally remove or handle other special characters that might not be JSON-safe
+    # Here, we remove characters like tabs or non-ASCII characters (as an example)
+    text = re.sub(r'[\t]', ' ', text)  # Replace tabs with spaces
+    text = re.sub(r'[^\x00-\x7F]+', '', text)  # Remove non-ASCII characters
+    
+    # Normalize spaces (strip leading/trailing whitespace)
+    text = text.strip()
     return text
 
-
+    
                 
 # 🎭 Main function - "All the world's a stage, and all the code merely players" -Shakespeare, probably
 def main():