diff --git a/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py b/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py
index f8758b914..e5c22842a 100644
--- a/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py
+++ b/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ def __relocate_file(self, path: RecentPath) -> RecentPath:
     @Inputs.corpus
     def set_data(self, data: Corpus):
         self.cancel()
-        super().set_data(data)
+        self.data = data
 
     def buildpreproc(self) -> PreprocessorList:
         plist = []