Update app.py

app.py

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ from PIL import Image
 import streamlit as st
 # import os
 
+
+# Load the EasyOCR reader
+reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'])
+
+
 # key=os.environ.getattribute("api_key")
 # print(key)
 API_URL = "https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/flair/ner-english-large"
@@ -42,9 +47,9 @@ def image_upload_and_ocr(reader):
     if uploaded_file is not None:
         image=Image.open(uploaded_file)
         image=image.resize((640,480))
-        result = reader.readtext(image)
-        result2=result
-        texts = [item[1] for item in result]
+        result2 = reader.readtext(image)
+        # result2=result
+        texts = [item[1] for item in result2]
         result=' '.join(texts)
     return result,result2
 
@@ -90,8 +95,7 @@ def drawing_detection(image):
         st.image(image,caption='Detected text on the card ',width=710)
     return image
 
-# Load the EasyOCR reader
-reader = easyocr.Reader(['en'])
+
 
 st.title("_Business_ card data extractor using opencv and streamlit :sunglasses:")
 result,result2=image_upload_and_ocr(reader)