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+FROM python:3.11-slim-bullseye
+WORKDIR /app
+
+ADD . /app
+
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr libtesseract-dev && \
+    apt-get clean && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir pytesseract
+
+EXPOSE 8080
+
+# Run run.py when the container launches
+ENTRYPOINT uvicorn run:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port $PORT --workers 4
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