Dockerfile

# Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
FROM python:3.9-slim

# Prevent Python from writing pyc files to disk and enable unbuffered logging
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1

# Install system dependencies (including Tesseract OCR)
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    build-essential \
    libjpeg-dev \
    zlib1g-dev \
    tesseract-ocr \
    libtesseract-dev \
 && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Set working directory
WORKDIR /app

# Upgrade pip
RUN pip install --upgrade pip

# Copy only the requirements file first to leverage Docker cache
COPY requirements.txt .

# Install Python dependencies
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

# Copy the rest of the application code
COPY . .

# Expose the port that uvicorn will run on
EXPOSE 8000

# Command to run the application with uvicorn
CMD ["uvicorn", "main:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8000"]