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PR #27 merged: Fix empty PaddleOCR at runtime: pin HOME + self-verify on load (#13)
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Follow-up to #25/#26.
The py3.13 build self-test passes (paddle reads text at build) yet runtime returns empty in ~0.2s with no error — the signature of a model-cache path divergence: the build RUN bakes PP-OCRv6 models to /root/.paddlex (HOME=/root), but the runtime container's HOME isn't guaranteed to be /root, so PaddleOCR resolves an empty cache and silently no-ops.
ENV HOME=/rootso the build bake and the runtime process share the same~/.paddlex.get_paddle()self-verifies on first load (reads a synthetic word) and raises if it can't —engine=paddlenow returns a loud 5xx instead of a silently-empty 200. Validated locally on 3.13.
Tesseract (default) is unaffected and live. I'll force a clean rebuild and confirm engine=paddle returns real text.