diff --git a/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py b/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py
index e93d443bf6..734d1ef73f 100644
--- a/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py
+++ b/backend/open_webui/retrieval/loaders/main.py
@@ -392,15 +392,6 @@ class Loader:
             loader = MistralLoader(
                 api_key=self.kwargs.get("MISTRAL_OCR_API_KEY"), file_path=file_path
             )
-        elif (
-            self.engine == "external"
-            and self.kwargs.get("MISTRAL_OCR_API_KEY") != ""
-            and file_ext
-            in ["pdf"]  # Mistral OCR currently only supports PDF and images
-        ):
-            loader = MistralLoader(
-                api_key=self.kwargs.get("MISTRAL_OCR_API_KEY"), file_path=file_path
-            )
         else:
             if file_ext == "pdf":
                 loader = PyPDFLoader(