Merged in hotfix/file-errors (pull request #448)

Hotfix/file errors

* Set up test file

* Fix regex pattern in json.loads

*  bug fix No valid JSON object found in the input string

* bug fixes

* moved try statement to parse fn

* invalid literal for int() with base 10 error fixed

* remove test

* remove excess print statements

* Raise error

* Remove todo

* Remove print statement


Approved-by: Katon Minhas

fieldExtraction/src/preprocessing_funcs.py

@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ def remove_page_indicators(contract_text: str) -> str:
         str: cleaned text with newlines and page number indicators removed
     """
     
-    cleaned_text = re.sub(r"Page [0-9]+ of [0-9]+\n\n", " ", contract_text) # TODO: fix in main branch
+    if contract_text:
+        cleaned_text = re.sub(r"Page [0-9]+ of [0-9]+\n\n", " ", contract_text)
+    else:
+        cleaned_text = contract_text
     return cleaned_text