diff --git a/git-filter-repo b/git-filter-repo
index 63c47da..c539eb8 100755
--- a/git-filter-repo
+++ b/git-filter-repo
@@ -3261,8 +3261,10 @@ class RepoFilter(object):
     if blob.original_id in self._args.strip_blobs_with_ids:
       blob.skip()
 
-    if self._args.replace_text and \
-       not any(x == b"0" for x in blob.data[0:8192]):
+    if ( self._args.replace_text
+        # not (if blob contains zero byte in the first 8Kb, that is, if blob is binary data)
+        and not b"\0" in blob.data[0:8192]
+    ):
       for literal, replacement in self._args.replace_text['literals']:
         blob.data = blob.data.replace(literal, replacement)
       for regex,   replacement in self._args.replace_text['regexes']: