diff --git a/deploy/cpp_infer/tools/config.txt b/deploy/cpp_infer/tools/config.txt
index 18360086..17b50779 100644
--- a/deploy/cpp_infer/tools/config.txt
+++ b/deploy/cpp_infer/tools/config.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ det_db_unclip_ratio  2.0
 det_model_dir  ../model/det
 
 # cls config
-use_angle_cls 1
+use_angle_cls 0
 cls_model_dir ../model/cls
 cls_thresh  0.9
 
diff --git a/tools/infer/utility.py b/tools/infer/utility.py
index 9e2c2910..ac04c2bd 100755
--- a/tools/infer/utility.py
+++ b/tools/infer/utility.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def parse_args():
     parser.add_argument("--use_space_char", type=bool, default=True)
 
     # params for text classifier
-    parser.add_argument("--use_angle_cls", type=str2bool, default=True)
+    parser.add_argument("--use_angle_cls", type=str2bool, default=False)
     parser.add_argument("--cls_model_dir", type=str)
     parser.add_argument("--cls_image_shape", type=str, default="3, 48, 192")
     parser.add_argument("--label_list", type=list, default=['0', '180'])