diff --git a/app/ml/siglip.py b/app/ml/siglip.py
index 693b28b..4fa6951 100644
--- a/app/ml/siglip.py
+++ b/app/ml/siglip.py
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import os
 
 import numpy as np
-from PIL import Image
+from PIL import Image, ImageFile
+
+# Mirror wd14.py: tolerate minutely-truncated source images so embedding
+# doesn't fail on the same images WD14 successfully tagged.
+ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
 
 # Defer torch/transformers imports to lazily-loaded functions to allow
 # importing MODEL_VERSION in non-ML-worker contexts (e.g., web container
diff --git a/app/ml/wd14.py b/app/ml/wd14.py
index 640e0cb..9cabea3 100644
--- a/app/ml/wd14.py
+++ b/app/ml/wd14.py
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ from typing import Iterable
 
 import numpy as np
 import onnxruntime as ort
-from PIL import Image
+from PIL import Image, ImageFile
+
+# Some images in the library are minutely truncated (e.g. 6 bytes short of
+# the JPEG end-of-image marker). The model doesn't care about the last few
+# pixels, but PIL's default strict load raises OSError. Tolerate them so a
+# single corrupt tail doesn't block tagging the rest of the image.
+ImageFile.LOAD_TRUNCATED_IMAGES = True
 
 MODEL_VERSION = os.environ.get('WD14_MODEL_VERSION', 'wd-eva02-large-tagger-v3')
 _MODEL_DIR = os.environ.get('ML_MODEL_DIR', '/models')