diff --git a/README.MD b/README.MD
index 13576e3..259fd15 100644
--- a/README.MD
+++ b/README.MD
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ add dependency in your project
 <dependency>
     <groupId>eu.europeana.metis.image.enhancement</groupId>
     <artifactId>metis-image-enhancer-client</artifactId>
-    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <scope>compile</scope>
+    <version>1</version>
 </dependency>
 ````
 ### properties
@@ -102,6 +101,20 @@ api.url = http://localhost:5050
 connect.timeout = 300
 read.timeout = 300
 ```
+#### command line stand alone script
+If you only want to use the image processing without the API, you can invoke this 
+from the command line, using the script directly.
+
+```
+python ./metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py -i image_input.jpg -o image_output.jpg
+```
+
+
+## General limitations 
+Why this AI python model runs as a script? in this iteration the python model cannot be held 
+in memory otherwise you will get an Out of Memory. The model in python of image processing 
+doesn't free the resources every time. 
+Steps of usage: load,  process, get results, discard, repeat again.
 
 #### See demo project
 run docker image previous to execute the demo app and then execute the following command in the cloned folder of 
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/java/eu/europeana/metis/image/enhancement/domain/worker/ImageEnhancerWorker.java b/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/java/eu/europeana/metis/image/enhancement/domain/worker/ImageEnhancerWorker.java
index 836829f..a708036 100644
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/java/eu/europeana/metis/image/enhancement/domain/worker/ImageEnhancerWorker.java
+++ b/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/java/eu/europeana/metis/image/enhancement/domain/worker/ImageEnhancerWorker.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  */
 public class ImageEnhancerWorker {
     private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
+    private static final boolean IS_FILTER_ENABLED = false;
     private final ImageEnhancer imageEnhancer;
 
     /**
@@ -70,7 +71,9 @@ public byte[] enhance(byte[] input) {
 
             final String format = getImageFormat(input);
 
-//            ImageIO.write(sharpen(image), format, baos);
+            if (IS_FILTER_ENABLED) {
+                ImageIO.write(sharpen(image), format, baos);
+            }
             ImageIO.write(image, format, baos);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             LOGGER.error("enhancing the image", e);
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/resources/application.properties b/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/resources/application.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index ea99a42..0000000
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-client/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-isr.api.url = http://localhost:5050
-isr.connect.timeout = 300
-isr.read.timeout = 300
-isr.script = ../metis-image-enhancer-python-script/src/main/mie.py
-
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-demo/.gitignore b/metis-image-enhancer-demo/.gitignore
index 75cba8d..29eee14 100644
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-demo/.gitignore
+++ b/metis-image-enhancer-demo/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+/src/main/resources/application.properties
 README.MD
 target/
 !.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties b/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties
index 306b393..ea72b57 100644
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 isr.api.url = http://localhost:8080
 isr.connect.timeout = 300
 isr.read.timeout = 300
-isr.script = ../metis-image-enhancer-python-script/src/main/mie.py
+isr.script = ../metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py
 worker.service.type = api
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties.example b/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties.example
index b7f6eef..0f8a84a 100644
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties.example
+++ b/metis-image-enhancer-demo/src/main/resources/application.properties.example
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 isr.api.url = http://localhost:8080
 isr.connect.timeout = 300
 isr.read.timeout = 300
-isr.script = ../metis-image-enhancer-python-script/src/main/mie.py
+isr.script = ../metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py
 worker.service.type = script
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/Dockerfile b/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/Dockerfile
index 6f1391d..2b31927 100644
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/Dockerfile
+++ b/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/Dockerfile
@@ -1,21 +1,26 @@
-FROM ubuntu:22.04
+FROM ubuntu:24.10
 
 RUN apt-get update  && apt-get upgrade -y
 RUN apt-get install git -y
-RUN apt-get install python3-pip -y
+RUN apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv python3-setuptools python3-pil python3-filetype python3-flask python3-waitress -y
+RUN mkdir flask-app && cd flask-app
+RUN python3 -m venv flask-venv
+RUN . flask-venv/bin/activate
 
-RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip
-RUN pip3 install filetype
-RUN pip3 install Flask
-RUN pip3 install waitress
-RUN pip3 install uuid
-RUN pip3 install tensorflow==2.13.0
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install --upgrade pip
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install filetype
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install Flask
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install waitress
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install uuid
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install pillow
+RUN flask-venv/bin/pip3 install tensorflow==2.17.0 numpy==1.26.0
 
 RUN git clone https://github.com/idealo/image-super-resolution.git \
      && cd image-super-resolution \
      && git checkout v2.2.0 \
-     && sed -i 's/tensorflow==2.0.0/tensorflow==2.13.0/' setup.py \
-     && sed -i 's/tensorflow-gpu==2.0.0/tensorflow-gpu==2.13.0/' setup.py \
+    && sed -i 's/numpy/numpy==1.26.0/' setup.py \
+     && sed -i 's/tensorflow==2.0.0/tensorflow==2.17.0/' setup.py \
+     && sed -i 's/tensorflow-gpu==2.0.0/tensorflow-gpu==2.17.0/' setup.py \
      && python3 setup.py install
 
 COPY src/main/api.py .
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py b/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py
index 8b02815..280d2f7 100644
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py
+++ b/metis-image-enhancer-python-rest/src/main/mie.py
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@
 # Arguments
 def parameters(argv):
     arg_help = "{0} -i <input> -o <output>".format(argv[0])
-    params = dict();
+    params = dict()
 
     try:
-        opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], "hio:v", ["help", "input=", "output="])
+        opts = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], "hio:v", ["help", "input=", "output="])
     except:
         print(arg_help)
         sys.exit(2)
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ def main(params):
     # elapsed time
     print ('loading model elapsed time: ',end - start)
     # Declare the input and output file locations
-    inputFile = r'{0}'.format(params['arg_input']).strip()
-    outputFile = r'{0}'.format(params['arg_output']).strip()
-    enhance(inputFile, outputFile, model)
+    input_file = r'{0}'.format(params['arg_input']).strip()
+    output_file = r'{0}'.format(params['arg_output']).strip()
+    enhance(input_file, output_file, model)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     main(parameters(sys.argv))
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-python-script/pom.xml b/metis-image-enhancer-python-script/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index fe85ad6..0000000
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-python-script/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <parent>
-        <groupId>eu.europeana.metis</groupId>
-        <artifactId>metis-image-enhancer</artifactId>
-        <version>1-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    </parent>
-
-    <groupId>eu.europeana.metis.image.enhancement</groupId>
-    <artifactId>metis-image-enhancer-python-script</artifactId>
-
-    <properties>
-        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    </properties>
-
-</project>
diff --git a/metis-image-enhancer-python-script/src/main/mie.py b/metis-image-enhancer-python-script/src/main/mie.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b02815..0000000
--- a/metis-image-enhancer-python-script/src/main/mie.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
-import numpy as np
-import sys
-import os
-import getopt
-import time
-import filetype
-
-from PIL import Image
-from ISR.models import RDN
-
-workingdirectory = os.getcwd()
-
-# working directory
-print('working dir:', workingdirectory)
-
-# Arguments
-def parameters(argv):
-    arg_help = "{0} -i <input> -o <output>".format(argv[0])
-    params = dict();
-
-    try:
-        opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv[1:], "hio:v", ["help", "input=", "output="])
-    except:
-        print(arg_help)
-        sys.exit(2)
-
-    if len(opts) == 0:
-        print(arg_help)
-    else:
-        for opt, arg in opts:
-            if opt in ("-h", "--help"):
-                print(arg_help)  # print the help message
-                sys.exit(2)
-            elif opt in ("-i", "--input"):
-                params['arg_input'] = arg
-
-            elif opt in ("-o", "--output"):
-                params[ 'arg_output'] = arg
-
-        print('args:')
-        for elem in map(str,params):
-            print(elem+":"+params[elem], sep="\n")
-
-    return params
-def enhance(input_file, output_file, model):
-    # Read the image from the file
-    # convert image to RGB format with white background
-    small_image = Image.open(input_file).convert("RGBA")
-    rgb_img = Image.new("RGBA", small_image.size, "WHITE")
-    rgb_img.paste(small_image, mask=small_image)
-
-    # Enhance the image
-    enhanced_image = model.predict(np.array(rgb_img.convert("RGB")))
-    # find image format
-    kind = filetype.guess(input_file)
-    description = ""
-    if kind is None or kind.extension not in ['jpg', 'bmp', 'gif', 'tif', 'png', 'apng', 'ico']:
-        if kind is None:
-            description = 'file type not supported!'
-        else:
-            description = 'file type '+kind.extension+' not supported!'
-
-    if description != "":
-        print(description)
-        return 1
-
-    if kind.extension == 'jpg':
-        img_format = "jpeg"
-    elif kind.extension == 'tif':
-        img_format = "tiff"
-    elif kind.extension == 'apng':
-        img_format = "png"
-    else:
-        img_format = kind.extension
-    # Write the image to the output file.
-    Image.fromarray(enhanced_image).save(output_file, img_format)
-    return 0
-def main(params):
-    # Load the prediction model. Can be initialized once and then reused?
-    start = time.time()
-    model = RDN(weights='noise-cancel')
-    end = time.time()
-
-    # elapsed time
-    print ('loading model elapsed time: ',end - start)
-    # Declare the input and output file locations
-    inputFile = r'{0}'.format(params['arg_input']).strip()
-    outputFile = r'{0}'.format(params['arg_output']).strip()
-    enhance(inputFile, outputFile, model)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main(parameters(sys.argv))
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 627fcb3..0a9b867 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,10 +12,9 @@
 		<module>metis-image-enhancer-demo</module>
 		<module>metis-image-enhancer-client</module>
         <module>metis-image-enhancer-python-rest</module>
-        <module>metis-image-enhancer-python-script</module>
     </modules>
 	<properties>
-		<java.version>11</java.version>
+		<java.version>21</java.version>
 		<version.spring>2.7.11</version.spring>
 		<version.junit>5.9.3</version.junit>
 		<version.mockito>5.4.0</version.mockito>