diff --git a/app/Services/FileTools/OCR/TesseractImageOCR.php b/app/Services/FileTools/OCR/TesseractImageOCR.php
index 2090d37..26bd279 100644
--- a/app/Services/FileTools/OCR/TesseractImageOCR.php
+++ b/app/Services/FileTools/OCR/TesseractImageOCR.php
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ class TesseractImageOCR implements IImageOCR
      * @inheritDoc
      */
     public function performOCR(string $filePath): string {
-        $tesseract = new TesseractOCR($filePath);
-        return $tesseract->run();
+        try {
+            $tesseract = new TesseractOCR($filePath);
+            return $tesseract->run();
+        } catch (\Exception $e) {
+            // Handle the exception, log it, or rethrow it as needed
+            // For now, we just return an empty string
+            return '';
+        }
     }
 }