File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/StringIO.py", line 271, in getvalue
self.buf += ''.join(self.buflist)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 58: ordinal not in range(128)`

def adequacaoCut(pdf, person, pathInt, pathImg):
    with open('pdfs/'+pdf, 'rb') as f:
        doc = slate.PDF(f)
        print doc
        ... rest of code that works fine