diff --git a/backend/onyx/connectors/airtable/airtable_connector.py b/backend/onyx/connectors/airtable/airtable_connector.py
index deee6abbb..7d815528e 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/connectors/airtable/airtable_connector.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/connectors/airtable/airtable_connector.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ from typing import Any
 
 import requests
 from pyairtable import Api as AirtableApi
+from pyairtable.api.types import RecordDict
+from pyairtable.models.schema import TableSchema
 from retry import retry
 
 from onyx.configs.app_configs import INDEX_BATCH_SIZE
@@ -188,6 +190,66 @@ class AirtableConnector(LoadConnector):
         ]
         return sections, {}
 
+    def _process_record(
+        self,
+        record: RecordDict,
+        table_schema: TableSchema,
+        primary_field_name: str | None,
+    ) -> Document:
+        """Process a single Airtable record into a Document.
+
+        Args:
+            record: The Airtable record to process
+            table_schema: Schema information for the table
+            table_name: Name of the table
+            table_id: ID of the table
+            primary_field_name: Name of the primary field, if any
+
+        Returns:
+            Document object representing the record
+        """
+        table_id = table_schema.id
+        table_name = table_schema.name
+        record_id = record["id"]
+        fields = record["fields"]
+        sections: list[Section] = []
+        metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}
+
+        # Get primary field value if it exists
+        primary_field_value = (
+            fields.get(primary_field_name) if primary_field_name else None
+        )
+
+        for field_schema in table_schema.fields:
+            field_name = field_schema.name
+            field_val = fields.get(field_name)
+            field_type = field_schema.type
+
+            field_sections, field_metadata = self._process_field(
+                field_name=field_name,
+                field_info=field_val,
+                field_type=field_type,
+                table_id=table_id,
+                record_id=record_id,
+            )
+
+            sections.extend(field_sections)
+            metadata.update(field_metadata)
+
+        semantic_id = (
+            f"{table_name}: {primary_field_value}"
+            if primary_field_value
+            else table_name
+        )
+
+        return Document(
+            id=f"airtable__{record_id}",
+            sections=sections,
+            source=DocumentSource.AIRTABLE,
+            semantic_identifier=semantic_id,
+            metadata=metadata,
+        )
+
     def load_from_state(self) -> GenerateDocumentsOutput:
         """
         Fetch all records from the table.
@@ -199,17 +261,9 @@ class AirtableConnector(LoadConnector):
             raise AirtableClientNotSetUpError()
 
         table = self.airtable_client.table(self.base_id, self.table_name_or_id)
-        table_id = table.id
-        # due to https://community.airtable.com/t5/development-apis/pagination-returns-422-error/td-p/54778,
-        # we can't user the `iterate()` method - we need to get everything up front
-        # this also means we can't handle tables that won't fit in memory
         records = table.all()
 
         table_schema = table.schema()
-        # have to get the name from the schema, since the table object will
-        # give back the ID instead of the name if the ID is used to create
-        # the table object
-        table_name = table_schema.name
         primary_field_name = None
 
         # Find a primary field from the schema
@@ -220,45 +274,12 @@ class AirtableConnector(LoadConnector):
 
         record_documents: list[Document] = []
         for record in records:
-            record_id = record["id"]
-            fields = record["fields"]
-            sections: list[Section] = []
-            metadata: dict[str, Any] = {}
-
-            # Possibly retrieve the primary field's value
-            primary_field_value = (
-                fields.get(primary_field_name) if primary_field_name else None
+            document = self._process_record(
+                record=record,
+                table_schema=table_schema,
+                primary_field_name=primary_field_name,
             )
-            for field_schema in table_schema.fields:
-                field_name = field_schema.name
-                field_val = fields.get(field_name)
-                field_type = field_schema.type
-
-                field_sections, field_metadata = self._process_field(
-                    field_name=field_name,
-                    field_info=field_val,
-                    field_type=field_type,
-                    table_id=table_id,
-                    record_id=record_id,
-                )
-
-                sections.extend(field_sections)
-                metadata.update(field_metadata)
-
-            semantic_id = (
-                f"{table_name}: {primary_field_value}"
-                if primary_field_value
-                else table_name
-            )
-
-            record_document = Document(
-                id=f"airtable__{record_id}",
-                sections=sections,
-                source=DocumentSource.AIRTABLE,
-                semantic_identifier=semantic_id,
-                metadata=metadata,
-            )
-            record_documents.append(record_document)
+            record_documents.append(document)
 
             if len(record_documents) >= self.batch_size:
                 yield record_documents
diff --git a/backend/onyx/file_processing/extract_file_text.py b/backend/onyx/file_processing/extract_file_text.py
index b5cbe4556..fbc4fdc52 100644
--- a/backend/onyx/file_processing/extract_file_text.py
+++ b/backend/onyx/file_processing/extract_file_text.py
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ def is_text_file_extension(file_name: str) -> bool:
 
 def get_file_ext(file_path_or_name: str | Path) -> str:
     _, extension = os.path.splitext(file_path_or_name)
-    return extension
+    # standardize all extensions to be lowercase so that checks against
+    # VALID_FILE_EXTENSIONS and similar will work as intended
+    return extension.lower()
 
 
 def is_valid_file_ext(ext: str) -> bool: