Update api/data_extractor.py

api/data_extractor.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #from openai import AsyncOpenAI
 from pymongo import MongoClient
 from openai import OpenAI
-import os, io
+import os, io, base64
 import json
 import re
 from typing import List, Dict, Any
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Your goal will be to extract information from these images to populate the schem
         image_message = [
             {
                 "type": "image",
-                "image": {"bytes": io.BytesIO(uploaded_file.read()).getvalue()}
+                "image": {"bytes": base64.b64encode(uploaded_file.read()).decode('utf-8')}
             }
             for uploaded_file in valid_image_files
         ]