Update app.py

app.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ from transformers import AutoModel
 from PIL import Image
 import torch
 import numpy as np
+import urllib.request
 
 @st.cache_resource
 def load_model():
@@ -13,7 +14,10 @@ def load_model():
 
 @st.cache_data
 def read_image_as_np_array(image_path):
-    image = Image.open(image_path).convert("L").convert("RGB")
+    if "http" in image_path:
+        image = Image.open(urllib.request.urlopen(image_path)).convert("L").convert("RGB")
+    else:
+        image = Image.open(image_path).convert("L").convert("RGB")
     image = np.array(image)
     return image
 
@@ -81,7 +85,7 @@ input_text_character_matching_threshold = st.sidebar.slider('Text-character matc
 
 
 if path_to_image is None:
-    st.stop()
+    path_to_image = "https://i.imgur.com/pZqPlSR.jpeg"
 
 image = read_image_as_np_array(path_to_image)