Merge pull request #359 from roboflow/bugfix/skip-jpeg-encode-in-sdk-…

…if-no-resize

Skip encode image as jpeg if no-resize is specified

inference/core/version.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.9.21rc3"
+__version__ = "0.9.22"
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

inference_sdk/http/utils/loaders.py

@@ -138,6 +138,11 @@ def load_image_from_string(
             url=reference, max_height=max_height, max_width=max_width
         )
     if os.path.exists(reference):
+        if max_height is None or max_width is None:
+            with open(reference, "rb") as f:
+                img_bytes = f.read()
+            img_base64_str = encode_base_64(payload=img_bytes)
+            return img_base64_str, None
         local_image = cv2.imread(reference)
         if local_image is None:
             raise EncodingError(f"Could not load image from {reference}")