From fcffb0bb4382ae72dc693655fb1211370bb6c934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Gullickson <16152721+ericgullickson@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2026 16:18:14 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] fix: PaddleOCR timeout

---
 backend/src/features/ocr/external/ocr-client.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/features/ocr/external/ocr-client.ts b/backend/src/features/ocr/external/ocr-client.ts
index 134b5f9..42a1711 100644
--- a/backend/src/features/ocr/external/ocr-client.ts
+++ b/backend/src/features/ocr/external/ocr-client.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import type { JobResponse, OcrResponse, VinExtractionResponse } from '../domain/
 
 /** OCR service configuration */
 const OCR_SERVICE_URL = process.env.OCR_SERVICE_URL || 'http://mvp-ocr:8000';
-const OCR_TIMEOUT_MS = 30000; // 30 seconds for sync operations
+const OCR_TIMEOUT_MS = 120000; // 120 seconds for sync operations (PaddleOCR model loading on first call)
 
 /**
  * HTTP client for communicating with the OCR service.