testing easyOCR preprocessing internally

app.py

@@ -156,11 +156,18 @@ def ocr_fn(image):
         # convert pil to cv2 for preprocessing
         cv2_image = pil_to_cv2(image)
 
-        # preprocessing runs on cpu — outside the gpu function
-        clean = preprocess(cv2_image)
+        # # preprocessing runs on cpu — outside the gpu function
+        # clean = preprocess(cv2_image)
+
+        # # ocr inference on cpu
+        # text = ocr_gpu(clean)
+
+        # trusting easyOCR for test preprocess
+        # clean = preprocess(cv2_image)
 
         # ocr inference on cpu
-        text = ocr_gpu(clean)
+        text = ocr_gpu(cv2_image)
+
         return text
 
     except Exception as e: