diff --git a/api/app/detectCode.js b/api/app/detectCode.js
index 34de71e6f6..b631d1921e 100644
--- a/api/app/detectCode.js
+++ b/api/app/detectCode.js
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ const detectCode = async (input) => {
     return (await Promise.all(output)).join('');
   } catch (e) {
     console.log('Error in detectCode function\n', e);
-    return text;
+    return input;
   }
 };