++++++++++

app.py

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import json
 import pywt
 from skimage.feature import local_binary_pattern
 from skimage.filters import threshold_otsu
+from PIL import Image
+
 
 # Ensure poppler-utils and tesseract-ocr are installed
 def install_dependencies():
@@ -140,10 +142,17 @@ def process_image(img, method='default'):
     elif method == 'enhance_contrast':
         return enhance_contrast(resized_image)
 
+
+def convert_to_pil(image):
+    return Image.fromarray(cv.cvtColor(image, cv.COLOR_BGR2RGB))
+
+
 # Function to extract text from processed image
 def extract_text_from_image(image, langs='tel+osd+eng'):
+    pil_image = convert_to_pil(image)
     custom_config = r'--oem 3 --psm 6'
-    return pytesseract.image_to_string(image, lang=langs, config=custom_config)
+    return pytesseract.image_to_string(pil_image, lang=langs, config=custom_config)
+
 
 
 output_dir = "output"

requirements.txt

@@ -14,4 +14,5 @@ orjson==3.10.4
 python-json-logger==2.0.7
 ujson==5.10.0
 PyWavelets
-scikit-image==0.18.3
+scikit-image==0.18.3
+Pillow