diff --git a/spacy-nlp b/spacy-nlp
index 7dde3ac..d55bfa0 100755
--- a/spacy-nlp
+++ b/spacy-nlp
@@ -27,14 +27,12 @@ parser.add_argument('-c', '--check-encoding',
                     help='Check encoding of the input file, UTF-8 is used instead')  # noqa
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
-if args.check_encoding:
-    with open(args.input, "rb") as text_file:
-        if args.check_encoding:
-            encoding = chardet.detect(text_file.read())['encoding']
-        else:
-            encoding = 'utf-8'
-
 with open(args.input, "rb") as text_file:
+    if args.check_encoding:
+        encoding = chardet.detect(text_file.read())['encoding']
+    else:
+        encoding = 'utf-8'
+    text_file.seek(0)
     text_md5 = hashlib.md5()
     for chunk in iter(lambda: text_file.read(128 * text_md5.block_size), b''):
         text_md5.update(chunk)