diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f34f2fe..7b60b35 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
 
 # Install Python, pip, git, and Jupyter Notebook
 RUN apt-get install -y python3 python3-pip git
-RUN pip3 install notebook
 
-# Install NLTK and other dependencies
-RUN pip3 install nltk
+# Copy the requirements file into the container at /app
+COPY requirements.txt /app/
+
+# Install Python packages from requirements file
+RUN pip3 install -r /app/requirements.txt
 
 # Create a directory for NLTK data and download 'all'
 RUN python3 -m nltk.downloader all
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5a8721b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+notebook
+nltk