Dockerfile

# Dockerfile
# Using the official Hugging Face template as a base
FROM python:3.10-slim

# Set up a non-root user for security
RUN useradd -m -u 1000 user
USER user
ENV PATH="/home/user/.local/bin:$PATH"
ENV HOME="/home/user"

WORKDIR /app

# Install system dependencies needed by our application (like Tesseract)
# We switch back to root temporarily to do this
USER root
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# Switch back to the non-root user
USER user

# Copy requirements and install Python packages
COPY --chown=user ./requirements.txt requirements.txt
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r requirements.txt

# Copy the rest of the application code
COPY --chown=user . /app

# The command to run the application. Uvicorn will run our FastAPI app.
# The app itself will serve the Gradio UI.
CMD ["uvicorn", "app:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "7860"]