diff --git a/bounding_box_helpers.py b/bounding_box_helpers.py
index e69de29..9e9cd4b 100644
--- a/bounding_box_helpers.py
+++ b/bounding_box_helpers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import os
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def load_bounding_boxes(filepath):
+    with open(filepath,'r') as f:
+        text = f.read()
+    lines = text.split('\n')
+    boxes = np.array([line.split('\t')[:4] for line in lines if line],dtype=np.int32)
+    
+    return boxes
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