Dockerfile

# Use a Python 3.10 runtime
FROM python:3.10-slim

# Install Tesseract OCR Engine and other required system dependencies
# (Keeping this in case you switch back later)
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \

    tesseract-ocr \
    build-essential \
    ffmpeg \
    libsm6 \
    libxext6 \
    libgl1 \
    libglib2.0-0 \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Set the working directory
WORKDIR /code

# Copy and install Python packages
COPY ./requirements.txt /code/requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r /code/requirements.txt

# Copy the rest of the application code
COPY . /code/

# Command to run your ORIGINAL app.py file
CMD ["gunicorn", "--bind", "0.0.0.0:7860", "app:app"]