diff --git a/app/api-balancer.py b/app/api-balancer.py
index f8c10aff6333dbdae6107cf1820f6d5b4d1c7338..6035997e50a604c34f15113a908501e6a39e1c93 100644
--- a/app/api-balancer.py
+++ b/app/api-balancer.py
@@ -165,70 +165,6 @@ async def startup_event():
     asyncio.create_task(update_api_pods())
 
 
-class Document(BaseModel):
-    text: str
-
-
-"""
-@app.post("/kallimachosPipeline")
-async def process_document(request: Request):
-    logger.info(f"Received request")
-    # Read the body as raw bytes
-    raw_body = await request.body()
-
-    # First, try to parse as JSON.
-    try:
-        body = json.loads(raw_body)
-    except json.JSONDecodeError:
-        # If JSON decoding fails, try to parse as URL-encoded data.
-        qs = raw_body.decode("utf-8")
-        parsed_qs = urllib.parse.parse_qs(qs)
-        # parse_qs returns a dict with list values; extract the first item.
-        body = {k: v[0] for k, v in parsed_qs.items() if v}
-
-    text = body.get("text")
-    if not text:
-        return {"error": "Missing 'text' in request body."}
-
-    # Wait until one pod is available.
-    pod_ip, pod_name = await get_free_pod()
-    logger.info(f"Selected pod: {pod_ip, pod_name}")
-    await asyncio.sleep(10)
-    try:
-        # Prepare the file to send to the API pod.
-        # We assume the API pod is listening on port 80.
-        url = f"http://{pod_ip}:80/kallimachosPipeline"
-
-        myobj = {'text': text}
-        headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8'}
-
-        async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=None) as client:
-            response = await client.post(url, data=myobj, headers=headers)
-
-            if response.status_code != 200:
-                raise HTTPException(
-                    status_code=response.status_code,
-                    detail=f"Error from upstream API pod: {response.text}"
-                )
-
-            # Optionally, pass through relevant headers (adjust as needed)
-            headers = {
-                key: value
-                for key, value in response.headers.items()
-                if key.lower() in ["content-type", "content-disposition"]
-            }
-            return Response(
-                content=response.content,
-                status_code=response.status_code,
-                headers=headers
-            )
-    except Exception as err:
-        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(err))
-    finally:
-        await mark_pod_free(pod_ip, pod_name)
-"""
-
-
 @app.api_route("/{path:path}", methods=["GET", "POST", "PUT", "PATCH", "DELETE", "OPTIONS", "HEAD"])
 async def proxy(path: str, request: Request):
     logger = app.logger if hasattr(app, "logger") else print