From aa843e144f0728392600133724211d8c7f7d3b11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhang Jun <jzhang533@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 15:36:30 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] lazy import PyMuPDF

---
 ppocr/utils/utility.py           | 3 ++-
 ppstructure/pdf2word/pdf2word.py | 2 ++
 requirements.txt                 | 1 -
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ppocr/utils/utility.py b/ppocr/utils/utility.py
index 47461d7d5e..91b74f022d 100755
--- a/ppocr/utils/utility.py
+++ b/ppocr/utils/utility.py
@@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ def check_and_read(img_path):
         imgvalue = frame[:, :, ::-1]
         return imgvalue, True, False
     elif os.path.basename(img_path)[-3:].lower() == 'pdf':
-        import fitz
+        from paddle.utils import try_import
+        try_import('fitz')
         from PIL import Image
         imgs = []
         with fitz.open(img_path) as pdf:
diff --git a/ppstructure/pdf2word/pdf2word.py b/ppstructure/pdf2word/pdf2word.py
index 5c8f8f2bd3..d5d715ed66 100644
--- a/ppstructure/pdf2word/pdf2word.py
+++ b/ppstructure/pdf2word/pdf2word.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 import platform
 import numpy as np
 import fitz
+from paddle.utils import try_import
+try_import('fitz')
 from PIL import Image
 from pdf2docx.converter import Converter
 from qtpy.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QPushButton, QProgressBar, \
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index af5abe4539..7dc53ca039 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,5 @@ lxml
 premailer
 openpyxl
 attrdict
-PyMuPDF<1.21.0
 Pillow>=10.0.0
 pyyaml