diff --git a/tools/preprocess_data.py b/tools/preprocess_data.py
index 38db67f1..24586bdd 100644
--- a/tools/preprocess_data.py
+++ b/tools/preprocess_data.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import argparse
 
 from datatrove.executor.local import LocalPipelineExecutor
-from datatrove.pipeline.readers import HuggingFaceDatasetReader, JsonlReader
+from datatrove.pipeline.readers import HuggingFaceDatasetReader, JsonlReader, ParquetReader
 from datatrove.pipeline.tokens import DocumentTokenizer
 
 
@@ -72,6 +72,18 @@ def get_args():
         "--glob-pattern", type=str, default=None, help="A glob pattern to filter files to read. Default: None"
     )
 
+    p3 = sp.add_parser(name="parquet")
+    p3.add_argument(
+        "--dataset",
+        type=str,
+        required=True,
+        help="Path to a .paquet file or hf:// path",
+    )
+    p3.add_argument("--column", type=str, default="text", help="Column to preprocess from the Dataset. Default: text")
+    p3.add_argument(
+        "--glob-pattern", type=str, default=None, help="A glob pattern to filter files to read. Default: None"
+    )
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     return args
@@ -85,6 +97,8 @@ def main(args):
             text_key=args.column,
             dataset_options={"split": args.split},
         )
+    elif args.readers == "parquet":
+        datatrove_reader = ParquetReader(data_folder=args.dataset, text_key=args.column, glob_pattern=args.glob_pattern)
     else:
         datatrove_reader = JsonlReader(data_folder=args.dataset, text_key=args.column, glob_pattern=args.glob_pattern)