diff --git a/frappe/utils/pdf.py b/frappe/utils/pdf.py
index 8376d32a93..54b90be6ed 100644
--- a/frappe/utils/pdf.py
+++ b/frappe/utils/pdf.py
@@ -18,12 +18,14 @@ def get_pdf(html, options=None, output=None):
 		"disable-local-file-access": "",
 	})
 
+	filedata = ''
+
 	try:
 		# Set filename property to false, so no file is actually created
 		filedata = pdfkit.from_string(html, False, options=options or {})
 
 		# https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/PdfFileReader.html
-		# create in-memory binary streams from filedata and create a PdfFileReader objcet
+		# create in-memory binary streams from filedata and create a PdfFileReader object
 		reader = PdfFileReader(io.BytesIO(filedata))
 
 	except IOError as e: