diff --git a/paddlex/inference/pipelines/ocr/pipeline.py b/paddlex/inference/pipelines/ocr/pipeline.py
index 33b54514c..e8ec0d2c2 100644
--- a/paddlex/inference/pipelines/ocr/pipeline.py
+++ b/paddlex/inference/pipelines/ocr/pipeline.py
@@ -386,6 +386,11 @@ def predict(
                 )
             ]
 
+            if return_word_box:
+                for res in results:
+                    res["text_word"] = []
+                    res["text_word_region"] = []
+
             indices = list(range(len(doc_preprocessor_images)))
             indices = [idx for idx in indices if len(dt_polys_list[idx]) > 0]