diff --git a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/jni/DeLFTModel.java b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/jni/DeLFTModel.java
index dcb53a2932..69caeef98c 100644
--- a/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/jni/DeLFTModel.java
+++ b/grobid-core/src/main/java/org/grobid/core/jni/DeLFTModel.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 import org.grobid.core.GrobidModels;
 import org.grobid.core.exceptions.GrobidException;
 import org.grobid.core.utilities.GrobidProperties;
+import org.grobid.core.utilities.IOUtilities;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -68,8 +69,29 @@ public LabelTask(String modelName, String data) {
             //System.out.println("label thread: " + Thread.currentThread().getId());
             this.modelName = modelName;
             this.data = data;
-        } 
-          
+        }
+
+        private void setJepStringValueWithFileFallback(
+            Jep jep, String name, String value
+        ) throws JepException, IOException {
+            try {
+                jep.set(name, value);
+            } catch(JepException e) {
+                File tempFile = IOUtilities.newTempFile(name, ".data");
+                LOGGER.debug(
+                    "Falling back to file {} due to exception: {}",
+                    tempFile, e.toString()
+                );
+                IOUtilities.writeInFile(tempFile.getAbsolutePath(), value);
+                jep.eval("from pathlib import Path");
+                jep.eval(
+                    name + " = Path('" + tempFile.getAbsolutePath() +
+                    "').read_text(encoding='utf-8')"
+                );
+                tempFile.delete();
+            }
+        }
+
         @Override
         public String call() { 
             Jep jep = JEPThreadPool.getInstance().getJEPInstance(); 
@@ -78,7 +100,7 @@ public String call() {
                 //System.out.println(this.data);
 
                 // load and tag
-                jep.set("input", this.data);
+                this.setJepStringValueWithFileFallback(jep, "input", this.data);
                 jep.eval("x_all, f_all = load_data_crf_string(input)");
                 Object objectResults = jep.getValue(this.modelName+".tag(x_all, None)");