diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 952d33e..2f0fba4 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout
-    rev: 0.7.1
+    rev: 0.8.1
     hooks:
     - id: nbstripout
       files: ".ipynb"
diff --git a/ammico/notebooks/DemoNotebook_ammico.ipynb b/ammico/notebooks/DemoNotebook_ammico.ipynb
index fd24b09..aaf992f 100644
--- a/ammico/notebooks/DemoNotebook_ammico.ipynb
+++ b/ammico/notebooks/DemoNotebook_ammico.ipynb
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@
    "source": [
     "%pwd\n",
     "image_dict = ammico.find_files(\n",
-    "    path=\"data/errors_Nov24/Error1\",\n",
-    "    # path=str(data_path),\n",
+    "    # path = \"/content/drive/MyDrive/misinformation-data/\",\n",
+    "    path=str(data_path),\n",
     "    limit=15,\n",
     ")"
    ]
diff --git a/ammico/text.py b/ammico/text.py
index 8d79e32..6149902 100644
--- a/ammico/text.py
+++ b/ammico/text.py
@@ -237,6 +237,15 @@ class TextDetector(AnalysisMethod):
         if not self.subdict["text"]:
             print("No text found - skipping analysis.")
         else:
+            # make sure all full stops are followed by whitespace
+            # otherwise googletrans breaks
+            index_stop = self.subdict["text"].find(".")
+            if self.subdict["text"][index_stop + 1] != " ":
+                self.subdict["text"] = (
+                    self.subdict["text"][: index_stop + 1]
+                    + " "
+                    + self.subdict["text"][index_stop + 1 :]
+                )
             self.translate_text()
             self.remove_linebreaks()
             if self.analyse_text: