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Form Recognizer API with Python for PDF throwing "BadArgument" error

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Description

> The issue
> ---------------------------------------------------------------

The Quickstart for Form Recognizer REST API with Python is not functioning any more. It throws the following error:
`
POST analyze failed:
{"error":{"code":"BadArgument","message":"Bad or unrecognizable request JSON or binary file."}}
`

Not sure if this has to do with the update to Form Recognizer REST API v3.0, but is not functioning for PDF anymore. It worked a few weeks ago.

### My code

```
from requests import get, post, Request, Session

endpoint = r"https://westeurope.api.cognitive.microsoft.com"
key = ""

def get_url(filename, endpoint, apim_key):

# v2.1
post_url = endpoint + "/formrecognizer/v2.1/layout/analyze"

headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/pdf',
'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': apim_key,
}

with open(filename, "rb") as f:
data_bytes = f.read()

try:
resp = post(post_url, data=data_bytes, headers=headers)
if resp.status_code != 202:
print("POST analyze failed:\n%s" % resp.text)
return None
print("POST analyze succeeded: %s" % resp.headers["operation-location"])
get_url = resp.headers["operation-location"]
return get_url
except Exception as e:
print("POST request failed:\n%s" % str(e))
return None

resp_url = get_url(source, endpoint, key)
```

### This issue is for a: (mark with an `x`)
```
- [ ] bug report -> please search issues before submitting
- [ ] feature request
- [ ] documentation issue or request
- [x] regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped in a new release)
```

### Minimal steps to reproduce
> Follow the Quickstart: Extract text and layout information using the Form Recognizer REST API with Python

### Any log messages given by the failure
> POST analyze failed:
{"error":{"code":"BadArgument","message":"Bad or unrecognizable request JSON or binary file."}}

### Expected/desired behavior
> I would expect to get a url returned

### OS and Version?
> Working on Windows 10, using Visual Studio Code

### Versions
> requests == 2.28.1
> Python == 3.9.13

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