diff --git a/marker_app.py b/marker_app.py
index a302cf52..5f9624cf 100644
--- a/marker_app.py
+++ b/marker_app.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 os.environ["PYTORCH_ENABLE_MPS_FALLBACK"] = "1"
 os.environ["IN_STREAMLIT"] = "true"
-os.environ["PDFTEXT_CPU_WORKERS"] = "1"
 
 import base64
 import io
@@ -25,8 +24,10 @@ def load_models():
 
 def convert_pdf(fname: str, **kwargs) -> (str, Dict[str, Any], dict):
     config_parser = ConfigParser(kwargs)
+    config_dict = config_parser.generate_config_dict()
+    config_dict["pdftext_workers"] = 1
     converter = PdfConverter(
-        config=config_parser.generate_config_dict(),
+        config=config_dict,
         artifact_dict=model_dict,
         processor_list=config_parser.get_processors(),
         renderer=config_parser.get_renderer()
@@ -51,7 +52,6 @@ def img_to_html(img, img_alt):
 def markdown_insert_images(markdown, images):
     image_tags = re.findall(r'(!\[(?P<image_title>[^\]]*)\]\((?P<image_path>[^\)"\s]+)\s*([^\)]*)\))', markdown)
 
-    print(image_tags)
     for image in image_tags:
         image_markdown = image[0]
         image_alt = image[1]
diff --git a/marker_server.py b/marker_server.py
index d6e52278..af1031bb 100644
--- a/marker_server.py
+++ b/marker_server.py
@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
-import argparse
-import os
-
 import click
 
-os.environ["PDFTEXT_CPU_WORKERS"] = "1"
-
 import uvicorn
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 from starlette.responses import HTMLResponse
@@ -83,8 +78,10 @@ async def convert_pdf(
     try:
         options = params.model_dump()
         config_parser = ConfigParser(options)
+        config_dict = config_parser.generate_config_dict()
+        config_dict["pdftext_workers"] = 1
         converter = PdfConverter(
-            config=config_parser.generate_config_dict(),
+            config=config_dict,
             artifact_dict=app_data["models"],
             processor_list=config_parser.get_processors(),
             renderer=config_parser.get_renderer()
diff --git a/run_marker_app.py b/run_marker_app.py
index fe027a22..03f32d7f 100644
--- a/run_marker_app.py
+++ b/run_marker_app.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ def run():
     cur_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
     app_path = os.path.join(cur_dir, "marker_app.py")
     cmd = ["streamlit", "run", app_path]
-    subprocess.run(cmd, env={**os.environ, "IN_STREAMLIT": "true", "PDFTEXT_CPU_WORKERS": "1"})
+    subprocess.run(cmd, env={**os.environ, "IN_STREAMLIT": "true"})
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":