diff --git a/docs-core/src/main/java/com/sismics/docs/core/listener/async/FileCreatedAsyncListener.java b/docs-core/src/main/java/com/sismics/docs/core/listener/async/FileCreatedAsyncListener.java
index be688334..1b76cb0d 100644
--- a/docs-core/src/main/java/com/sismics/docs/core/listener/async/FileCreatedAsyncListener.java
+++ b/docs-core/src/main/java/com/sismics/docs/core/listener/async/FileCreatedAsyncListener.java
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ public class FileCreatedAsyncListener {
             @Override
             public void run() {
                 FileDao fileDao = new FileDao();
+                if (fileDao.getById(file.getId()) == null) {
+                    // The file has been deleted since the OCR-ization started, ignore the result
+                    return;
+                }
+                
                 file.setContent(content);
                 fileDao.update(file);
             }