diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1b39732d8..ddb24275f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -52,6 +52,12 @@ version = "1.3.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "bef38d45163c2f1dde094a7dfd33ccf595c92905c8f8f4fdc18d06fb1037718a"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "bytecount"
+version = "0.6.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "72feb31ffc86498dacdbd0fcebb56138e7177a8cc5cea4516031d15ae85a742e"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.73"
@@ -185,6 +191,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "strsim",
  "term_size",
  "tree-sitter",
+ "tree_magic_mini",
  "typed-arena",
  "walkdir",
  "wu-diff",
@@ -209,6 +216,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "termcolor",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "fixedbitset"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "279fb028e20b3c4c320317955b77c5e0c9701f05a1d309905d6fc702cdc5053e"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "fnv"
+version = "1.0.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3f9eec918d3f24069decb9af1554cad7c880e2da24a9afd88aca000531ab82c1"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.11.2"
@@ -306,6 +325,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "libmimalloc-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "minimal-lexical"
+version = "0.2.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "68354c5c6bd36d73ff3feceb05efa59b6acb7626617f4962be322a825e61f79a"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "nom"
+version = "7.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a8903e5a29a317527874d0402f867152a3d21c908bb0b933e416c65e301d4c36"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+ "minimal-lexical",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "num_cpus"
 version = "1.13.1"
@@ -316,6 +351,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "once_cell"
+version = "1.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "87f3e037eac156d1775da914196f0f37741a274155e34a0b7e427c35d2a2ecb9"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "os_str_bytes"
 version = "6.0.0"
@@ -340,6 +381,16 @@ version = "3.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "5e72e30578e0d0993c8ae20823dd9cff2bc5517d2f586a8aef462a581e8a03eb"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "petgraph"
+version = "0.6.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4a13a2fa9d0b63e5f22328828741e523766fff0ee9e779316902290dff3f824f"
+dependencies = [
+ "fixedbitset",
+ "indexmap",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pretty_assertions"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -534,6 +585,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "regex",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tree_magic_mini"
+version = "3.0.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "91adfd0607cacf6e4babdb870e9bec4037c1c4b151cfd279ccefc5e0c7feaa6d"
+dependencies = [
+ "bytecount",
+ "fnv",
+ "lazy_static",
+ "nom",
+ "once_cell",
+ "petgraph",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "typed-arena"
 version = "2.0.1"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b851a8f87..9a6c9b9d3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ owo-colors = "3.3.0"
 rpds = "0.10.0"
 wu-diff = "0.1.2"
 rayon = "1.5.2"
+tree_magic_mini = "3.0.3"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 pretty_assertions = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/src/files.rs b/src/files.rs
index 0324ee52d..3d62d8dbb 100644
--- a/src/files.rs
+++ b/src/files.rs
@@ -69,6 +69,21 @@ pub fn read_or_die(path: &Path) -> Vec<u8> {
 
 /// Do these bytes look like a binary (non-textual) format?
 pub fn is_probably_binary(bytes: &[u8]) -> bool {
+    let mime = tree_magic_mini::from_u8(bytes);
+    match mime {
+        // Treat pdf as binary.
+        "application/pdf" => return true,
+        // Treat all image content as binary.
+        v if v.starts_with("image/") => return true,
+        // Treat all audio content as binary.
+        v if v.starts_with("audio/") => return true,
+        // Treat all video content as binary.
+        v if v.starts_with("video/") => return true,
+        // Treat all font content as binary.
+        v if v.starts_with("font/") => return true,
+        _ => {}
+    }
+
     // If more than 20 of the first 1,000 characters are null bytes or
     // invalid UTF-8, we assume it's binary.
     let num_replaced = String::from_utf8_lossy(bytes)