Fix

Dicklesworthstone · May 21, 2024 · 203c2d1 · 203c2d1
1 parent c031589
commit 203c2d1
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/service_functions.py b/service_functions.py
@@ -502,9 +502,7 @@ async def parse_submitted_document_file_into_sentence_strings_func(temp_file_pat
                 content = buffer.read()
     else:
         try:
-            with open(temp_file_path, 'rb') as buffer:
-                binary_content = buffer.read()
-            content = textract.process(binary_content, encoding='ascii', method='pdfminer')
+            content = textract.process(temp_file_path, encoding='utf-8', method='pdfminer')
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f"Error while processing file: {e}, mime_type: {mime_type}")
             traceback.print_exc()
@@ -513,7 +511,7 @@ async def parse_submitted_document_file_into_sentence_strings_func(temp_file_pat
     if len(sentences) == 0 and temp_file_path.lower().endswith('.pdf'):
         logger.info("No sentences found, attempting OCR using Tesseract.")
         try:
-            content = textract.process(binary_content, method='tesseract', encoding='ascii')
+            content = textract.process(temp_file_path, method='tesseract', encoding='utf-8')
             sentences = sophisticated_sentence_splitter(content)
         except Exception as e:
             logger.error(f"Error while processing file with OCR: {e}")