From 2b048814bd67d6d1669be66d44c35fa65881f889 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dhanabalan <dhana@example.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:13:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] alter logic in ocr for route

---
 routes/web.php | 18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/routes/web.php b/routes/web.php
index 249e024..4c9954b 100644
--- a/routes/web.php
+++ b/routes/web.php
@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;
         return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => 'File not found']);
     }
 
-    try {
-       // $text = (new TesseractOCR($filePath))->lang('eng')->run();
-       $text = (new TesseractOCR($filePath))
-            ->executable('/usr/bin/tesseract')
-            ->env(['PATH' => '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin'])
-            ->lang('eng')
-            ->run();
+    $output = null;
+    $return_var = null;
 
+    // Call tesseract directly, capture stderr with 2>&1
+    exec("/usr/bin/tesseract " . escapeshellarg($filePath) . " stdout -l eng 2>&1", $output, $return_var);
+
+    if ($return_var === 0) {
+        $text = implode("\n", $output);
         return response()->json(['success' => true, 'text' => $text]);
-    } catch (\Exception $e) {
-        return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => $e->getMessage()]);
+    } else {
+        return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => implode("\n", $output)]);
     }
 });