diff --git a/routes/web.php b/routes/web.php
index 58a3638..1f337f1 100644
--- a/routes/web.php
+++ b/routes/web.php
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ use thiagoalessio\TesseractOCR\TesseractOCR;
     });
 
     Route::post('/verify-ocr', function (Request $request) {
+
+        if (!$request->has('path')) {
+            return response()->json(['success' => false, 'error' => 'No file path provided']);
+        }
+
         $filePath = storage_path('app/private/temp/' . basename($request->path));
 
         if (!file_exists($filePath)) {