diff --git a/C4/Search.pm b/C4/Search.pm
index 10973e3aba..77a178c60f 100644
--- a/C4/Search.pm
+++ b/C4/Search.pm
@@ -2506,7 +2506,7 @@ sub new_record_from_zebra {
     # Set the default indexing modes
     my $search_engine = C4::Context->preference("SearchEngine");
     if ($search_engine eq 'Elasticsearch') {
-        return $raw_data;
+        return ref $raw_data eq 'MARC::Record' ? $raw_data : MARC::Record->new_from_xml( $raw_data, 'UTF-8' );
     }
     my $index_mode = ( $server eq 'biblioserver' )
                         ? C4::Context->config('zebra_bib_index_mode') // 'dom'