smart_open is effectively crashing SeaweedFS/S3 and Ceph/S3 filesystems when doing many small reads over large files (ex: 32k read on a 4GB file). On a SeaweedFS/S3 filesystem (also demonstrated on ...
The Images class defined in python bindings suggests the existence of a open_bytes static methoda that in teory could return an object accepted as the "images" parameter of the multimodal processor.