removed old logic

routes/web.php

@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;
             return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => 'File not found']);
         }
 
-    $output = null;
+        try {
-    $return_var = null;
+        // $text = (new TesseractOCR($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();
 
-    // 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]);
-    } else {
+        } catch (\Exception $e) {
-        return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => implode("\n", $output)]);
+            return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => $e->getMessage()]);
         }
     });