trying to change to not output to html first, then straight to df

app.py

@@ -116,14 +116,12 @@ def process_images_and_statements(image):
 
     logging.info('Finished process_images_and_statements')
 
-    # Convert DataFrame to a formatted string and return it
-    output = results_df.to_html(index=False)
-
-    return output
+    # Return the DataFrame directly as output (no need to convert to HTML)
+    return results_df  # <--- Return results_df directly
 
 # Gradio interface
 image_input = gr.inputs.Image()
-output = gr.outputs.Dataframe(type="pandas", label="Results")
+output = gr.outputs.Dataframe(type="pandas", label="Results")  # <--- Use "pandas" type for DataFrame output
 
 iface = gr.Interface(fn=process_images_and_statements, inputs=image_input, outputs=output, title="Image Captioning and Image-Text Matching")
 iface.launch()