app.py

import pytesseract
import subprocess
import streamlit as st

# Check if Tesseract is installed
tesseract_path = subprocess.run(["which", "tesseract"], capture_output=True, text=True).stdout.strip()

if not tesseract_path:
    st.error("Tesseract is not installed. Make sure 'apt.txt' contains 'tesseract-ocr'.")
else:
    st.success(f"Tesseract is installed at: {tesseract_path}")
    pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = tesseract_path