Update app.py

app.py

@@ -9,20 +9,22 @@ login("your-hf-api-token")
 # Initialize global pipeline
 ner_pipeline = None
 
+# Authenticate using the secret `HFTOKEN`
+def authenticate_with_token():
+    """Authenticate with the Hugging Face API using the HFTOKEN secret."""
+    hf_token = os.getenv("HFTOKEN")  # Retrieve the token from environment variables
+    if not hf_token:
+        raise ValueError("HFTOKEN is not set. Please add it to the Secrets in your Space settings.")
+    login(token=hf_token)
+    
 def load_healthcare_ner_pipeline():
     """Load the Hugging Face pipeline for Healthcare NER."""
     global ner_pipeline
-    if ner_pipeline is None:
-
-        token = os.getenv("HFTOKEN")  # Retrieve token from environment variable
-        if not token:
-            raise ValueError("HF_TOKEN is not set. Please add it to the Secrets in your Space settings.")
-        
+    if ner_pipeline is None:        
         ner_pipeline = pipeline(
             "token-classification",
             model="TypicaAI/HealthcareNER-Fr",
-            aggregation_strategy="first",  # Groups B- and I- tokens into entities
-            use_auth_token=token  # Use the token for gated models
+            aggregation_strategy="first"  # Groups B- and I- tokens into entities
         )
     return ner_pipeline
 
@@ -40,9 +42,11 @@ def log_demo_usage(text, num_entities):
 
 
 
-# Define the main demo interface
 
+# Authenticate and initialize pipeline
+authenticate_with_token()
 
+# Define the main demo interface
 demo = gr.Interface(
     fn=process_text,
     inputs=gr.Textbox(