nms adaptor.so is incompatible with apple silicon Macbook M2

[Aritra93]

I have been trying to run the demo.py on MacBook M2 to detect and localize scene texts. I have been getting the following error.

1. OSError: dlopen(/Users/.../adaptor.so, 0x0006): tried: '/Users/.../adaptor.so' (not a mach-o file).

   I did some digging and found that it's an architecture issue as I am using Apple silicon as my CPU.

   Is there any workaround for this?

2. Also, I tried running the demo.py as part of the Google Colab notebook but I faced a completely different issue. Since the notebook was running Python 3.10, it won't interpret the module that was compiled using Python 3.8. Now, using virtual environment doesn't work well on colab notebook as each notebook cell has its own instance.

Is there any way I can compile the nms module using python 3.10 right on colab?

Thank you in advance.

[MichalBusta]

Hi, the project is quite old (and not maintained), so there will some issues running the code with new python env.
you can try:

• check if the compiled module is in proper place (tried '/Users/.../adaptor.so' - can be located somewere else?)

I tried to run demo on ubuntu (python3.10.12) and seems to be working with some small fixes (- replace np.float with float ... just minor fixes)
on colab extension compiles just fine (with a lot of depraction warnings .... but seems to be working ...)

(if you are looking for SOTA methods, there should be quite a number of repos with better numbers ... )
(if you do not care about a speed, you can redo a nms method in python)

[MichalBusta]

the changes for running demo.py are pushed into branch https://github.com/MichalBusta/E2E-MLT/tree/python3.10