diff --git a/mayan/apps/common/compressed_files.py b/mayan/apps/common/compressed_files.py
index 2350f1ace1..0c06ed9d67 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/common/compressed_files.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/common/compressed_files.py
@@ -21,7 +21,14 @@ class NotACompressedFile(Exception):
 class CompressedFile(object):
     def __init__(self, file_input=None):
         if file_input:
-            self._open(file_input)
+            try:
+                # Is it a file like object?
+                file_input.seek(0)
+            except AttributeError:
+                # If not, try open it.
+                self._open(file_input)
+            else:
+                self.file_object = file_input
         else:
             self._create()
 
@@ -80,5 +87,14 @@ class CompressedFile(object):
     def as_file(self, filename):
         return SimpleUploadedFile(name=filename, content=self.write().read())
 
+    def children(self):
+        try:
+            # Try for a ZIP file
+            zfobj = zipfile.ZipFile(self.file_object)
+            filenames = [filename for filename in zfobj.namelist() if not filename.endswith('/')]
+            return (SimpleUploadedFile(name=filename, content=zfobj.read(filename)) for filename in filenames)
+        except zipfile.BadZipfile:
+            raise NotACompressedFile
+
     def close(self):
         self.zf.close()
diff --git a/mayan/apps/sources/compressed_file.py b/mayan/apps/sources/compressed_file.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e2a545e51..0000000000
--- a/mayan/apps/sources/compressed_file.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-import zipfile
-
-from django.core.files.uploadedfile import SimpleUploadedFile
-
-
-class NotACompressedFile(Exception):
-    pass
-
-
-class CompressedFile(object):
-    def __init__(self, file_object):
-        self.file_object = file_object
-
-    def children(self):
-        try:
-            # Try for a ZIP file
-            zfobj = zipfile.ZipFile(self.file_object)
-            filenames = [filename for filename in zfobj.namelist() if not filename.endswith('/')]
-            return (SimpleUploadedFile(name=filename, content=zfobj.read(filename)) for filename in filenames)
-        except zipfile.BadZipfile:
-            raise NotACompressedFile
-
-    # def close(self):
-    #     self.file_object.close()
diff --git a/mayan/apps/sources/models.py b/mayan/apps/sources/models.py
index bfb8f994a0..24e9f47cc2 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/sources/models.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/sources/models.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from django.contrib.contenttypes import generic
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.db import transaction
 
+from common.compressed_files import CompressedFile, NotACompressedFile
 from converter.api import get_available_transformations_choices
 from converter.literals import DIMENSION_SEPARATOR
 from documents.models import Document
@@ -26,7 +27,6 @@ from .literals import (SOURCE_CHOICES, SOURCE_CHOICES_PLURAL,
     SOURCE_CHOICE_STAGING, SOURCE_ICON_DISK, SOURCE_ICON_DRIVE,
     SOURCE_ICON_CHOICES, SOURCE_CHOICE_WATCH, SOURCE_UNCOMPRESS_CHOICES,
     SOURCE_UNCOMPRESS_CHOICE_Y)
-from .compressed_file import CompressedFile, NotACompressedFile
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)