diff --git a/addons/document/std_index.py b/addons/document/std_index.py
index 7cfcd36e2dc..ca5b02eef55 100644
--- a/addons/document/std_index.py
+++ b/addons/document/std_index.py
@@ -96,12 +96,7 @@ class DocIndex(indexer):
 
     def _doIndexFile(self,fname):
         fp = Popen(['antiword', fname], shell=False, stdout=PIPE).stdout
-        try:
-            file_data = _to_unicode(fp.read())
-        finally:
-            fp.close()
-            
-        return file_data
+        return _to_unicode(fp.read())
     
 cntIndex.register(DocIndex())
 
@@ -163,12 +158,7 @@ class PdfIndex(indexer):
 
     def _doIndexFile(self,fname):
         fp = Popen(['pdftotext', '-enc', 'UTF-8', '-nopgbrk', fname, '-'], shell=False, stdout=PIPE).stdout
-        try:
-           file_data = _to_unicode( fp.read())
-        finally:
-            fp.close()
-                 
-        return file_data
+        return _to_unicode( fp.read())
 
 cntIndex.register(PdfIndex())