diff --git a/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/model/ExtractedOcrImage.java b/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/model/ExtractedOcrImage.java
index 6455f97..819ccbe 100644
--- a/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/model/ExtractedOcrImage.java
+++ b/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/model/ExtractedOcrImage.java
@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@ package com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.model;
 
 import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
 import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.IntBuffer;
+import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore;
 
 import org.apache.pdfbox.util.Matrix;
 
+import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.service.threads.OCRThread;
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.utils.ImageProcessingUtils;
+import com.pdftron.sdf.Obj;
 
 import lombok.AccessLevel;
 import lombok.Getter;
@@ -52,12 +57,15 @@ public class ExtractedOcrImage implements OcrImage {
 
 
     @SneakyThrows
-    synchronized private Pix binarize(BufferedImage image, float imageDpi, int targetDpi) {
+    private Pix binarize(BufferedImage image, float imageDpi, int targetDpi) {
 
         ImageProcessingUtils.setAlphaChannelToWhite(image);
-        Pix grayScale = ImageProcessingUtils.convertToGrayScale(image);
-        Pix scaledUp = ImageProcessingUtils.scaleToTargetDpi(imageDpi, targetDpi, grayScale);
-        return ImageProcessingUtils.despecklePix(scaledUp);
+
+        synchronized (OCRThread.class) { // must synchronize the mallocs here with the mallocs tesseract detection script.
+            Pix grayScale = ImageProcessingUtils.convertToGrayScale(image);
+            Pix scaledUp = ImageProcessingUtils.scaleToTargetDpi(imageDpi, targetDpi, grayScale);
+            return ImageProcessingUtils.despecklePix(scaledUp);
+        }
     }
 
 
diff --git a/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/threads/OCRThread.java b/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/threads/OCRThread.java
index 1fd3753..ad567ef 100644
--- a/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/threads/OCRThread.java
+++ b/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/service/threads/OCRThread.java
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ package com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.service.threads;
 import static net.sourceforge.tess4j.ITessAPI.TRUE;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.nio.FloatBuffer;
+import java.nio.IntBuffer;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
@@ -13,8 +15,8 @@ import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.model.OcrImage;
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.model.OcrResult;
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.service.OcrProgressLogger;
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.service.Statistics;
-import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.utils.NativeMemoryAllocationUtils;
 import com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.utils.Tesseract2;
+import com.sun.jna.ptr.PointerByReference;
 
 import lombok.AccessLevel;
 import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;
@@ -126,15 +128,21 @@ public class OCRThread extends Thread {
         TessAPI1.TessBaseAPISetImage2(detectionScriptHandle, image.getPix());
         TessAPI1.TessBaseAPISetSourceResolution(detectionScriptHandle, image.getDpi());
 
+        synchronized (OCRThread.class) { // must synchronize the mallocs here with the mallocs in leptonica binarization.
+            orientationDegreeResultBuffer = IntBuffer.allocate(1);
+            orientationDegreeConfidenceBuffer = FloatBuffer.allocate(1);
+            scriptureNameBuffer = new PointerByReference();
+            scriptureConfidenceBuffer = FloatBuffer.allocate(1);
+        }
 
         int orient_deg = 0;
         int result = TessAPI1.TessBaseAPIDetectOrientationScript(detectionScriptHandle,
-                buffers.orientationDegreeResultBuffer(),
-                buffers.orientationDegreeConfidenceBuffer(),
-                buffers.scriptureNameBuffer(),
-                buffers.scriptureConfidenceBuffer());
+                orientationDegreeResultBuffer,
+                orientationDegreeConfidenceBuffer,
+                scriptureNameBuffer,
+                scriptureConfidenceBuffer);
         if (result == TRUE) {
-            orient_deg = buffers.orientationDegreeResultBuffer().get();
+            orient_deg = orientationDegreeResultBuffer.get();
         }
 
         synchronized (OCRThread.class) {
diff --git a/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/utils/NativeMemoryAllocationUtils.java b/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/utils/NativeMemoryAllocationUtils.java
deleted file mode 100644
index a75d004..0000000
--- a/ocr-service-v1/ocr-service-processor/src/main/java/com/knecon/fforesight/service/ocr/processor/utils/NativeMemoryAllocationUtils.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-package com.knecon.fforesight.service.ocr.processor.utils;
-
-import java.nio.FloatBuffer;
-import java.nio.IntBuffer;
-
-import com.sun.jna.ptr.PointerByReference;
-
-import lombok.experimental.UtilityClass;
-
-@UtilityClass
-public class NativeMemoryAllocationUtils {
-
-    synchronized public static DetectionScriptBuffers getDetectionScriptBuffers() {
-
-        IntBuffer orient_degB = IntBuffer.allocate(1);
-        FloatBuffer orient_confB = FloatBuffer.allocate(1);
-        PointerByReference script_nameB = new PointerByReference();
-        FloatBuffer script_confB = FloatBuffer.allocate(1);
-        return new DetectionScriptBuffers(orient_degB, orient_confB, script_nameB, script_confB);
-    }
-
-
-    public record DetectionScriptBuffers(IntBuffer orientationDegreeResultBuffer, FloatBuffer orientationDegreeConfidenceBuffer, PointerByReference scriptureNameBuffer, FloatBuffer scriptureConfidenceBuffer) {
-
-    }
-}