From 8216aa9e3a1f5dcc8eb9542e2a50ece3359e2acf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: fushall <fushall@163.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 19:15:42 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix ocr func for Chinese path issus (#1755)

---
 paddleocr.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/paddleocr.py b/paddleocr.py
index 3c3c47ab..db24aa59 100644
--- a/paddleocr.py
+++ b/paddleocr.py
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ class PaddleOCR(predict_system.TextSystem):
             image_file = img
             img, flag = check_and_read_gif(image_file)
             if not flag:
-                img = cv2.imread(image_file)
+                with open(image_file, 'rb') as f:
+                    np_arr = np.frombuffer(f.read(), dtype=np.uint8)
+                    img = cv2.imdecode(np_arr, cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)
             if img is None:
                 logger.error("error in loading image:{}".format(image_file))
                 return None