diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b911a67..9de5820 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import requests
 
 # load image from the IAM database
 url = 'https://fki.tic.heia-fr.ch/static/img/a01-122-02-00.jpg'
-image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
+image = Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw).convert("RGB")
 
 processor = TrOCRProcessor.from_pretrained('microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten')
 model = VisionEncoderDecoderModel.from_pretrained('microsoft/trocr-base-handwritten')